Courage and Conscience

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Written by first-rate scholars, these 10 essays give focus to theantislavery movement in Boston, particularly to the significance of African Americanabolitionists." -- Choice ..". handsome, lavishlyillustrated, and informative... " -- The New EnglandQuarterly ..". this work is a thoughtful, long overduediscourse on individual and group accomplishments. It is replete with absorbingillustrations, which when accompanied by insightful essays, depict the courage ofthose who labored for equality in antebellum Boston." -- Journal of the EarlyRepublic Until recently little was known of the contributions ofAfrican Americans in the antebellum abolition movement. Massachusetts, havinggranted voting rights early on to black males, was a center of antislaveryagitation. Courage and Conscience documents the black activism in 19th-centuryBoston that was critical to the success of the abolitionist cause.