Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

Available items only

Record 18 of 25

Author

Title Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism / Margaret Abruzzo.

Publication Info.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Connect to
Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (339 pages)
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Series	New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
	New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Self-denial, Martyrdom, and the formation of Quaker humanitarianism -- Humanity, human nature, and the problem of cruelty -- Moral responsibility and removal, 1800-1832 -- Politicizing humaneness, 1832-1839 -- Suited for slavery, 1840-1852 -- The contradictions of benevolence, 1852-1861.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Quaker abolitionists -- History -- 19th century.
	Abolitionists -- History -- 19th century.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	United States -- Moral conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Abruzzo, Margaret Nicola. Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 330 pages ; 24 cm. New studies in American intellectual and cultural history 9780801898525 (OCoLC)ocn670324845
ISBN	9780801898525 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0801898528 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9781421401270 (electronic bk.)