A Sermon In Commemoration Of The Death Of Charles Turner Torrey
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The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey
Author | : E. Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-11-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807152331 |
During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia and Albany. Arrested in Baltimore in 1844 for his activities, Torrey spent two years in prison before he succumbed to tuberculosis. By then, other abolitionists widely recognized and celebrated Torrey's exploits: running wagonloads of slaves northward in the night, dodging slave catchers and sheriffs, and involving members of Congress in his schemes. Nonetheless, the historiography of abolitionism has largely overlooked Torrey's fascinating and compelling story. The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey presents the first comprehensive biography of one of America's most dedicated abolitionists. According to author E. Fuller Torrey, a distant relative, Charles Torrey pushed the abolitionist movement to become more political and active. He helped advance the faction that challenged the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, provoking an irreversible schism in the movement and making Torrey and Garrison bitter enemies. Torrey played an important role in the formation of the Liberty Party and in the emergence of political abolitionism. Not satisfied with the slow pace of change, he also pioneered aggressive abolitionism by personally freeing slaves, likely liberating more than any other person. In doing so, he inspired many others, including John Brown, who cited Torrey as one of his role models. E. Fuller Torrey's study not only fills a substantial gap in the history of abolitionism but restores Charles Torrey to his rightful place as one of the most dedicated and significant abolitionists in American history.
A Martyr to the Truth. a Sermon in Commemoration of the Death of REV. Charles T. Torrey, in the Maryland Penitentiary, May 9, 184. Delivered at Fisherville; And Also in the Baptist Meeting-House in Concord, May 31, 1846
Author | : Edmund Worth |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781359527479 |
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Compelling Lives
Author | : Christopher P. Momany |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2023-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 166674462X |
What motivates people to work for justice? Recent studies have moved away from an emphasis on specific principles and toward an understanding of social and cultural forces. But what about times in history when distinct ideas were critical for positive change? The pre-Civil War abolitionist movement represents one such time. During an era when race-based slavery was buttressed by the machinery of civil law, many people developed arguments for freedom and equity that were grounded in divine law. There were Methodist witnesses for justice who lived by this distinction between civil and godly authority. While Methodism, as an institution, betrayed its founding opposition to slavery, many within the movement expressed a prophetic vision. A vibrant counterculture borrowed from Scripture and modern philosophy to argue for a “higher law” of justice. The world-changing ideas that overcame slavery in America were not disembodied and ethereal. They were mediated through the lives of multidimensional individuals. Sojourner Truth, Luther Lee, Laura Haviland, Henry Bibb, and Gilbert Haven were very different from one another. Yet they were animated by similar ideas, grounded in faith, and shaped by a common commitment to human rights.
The Most Absolute Abolition
Author | : Jesse Olsavsky |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2022-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807178365 |
Jesse Olsavsky’s The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. These groups, based primarily in northeastern cities, defended Black neighborhoods from police and slave catchers. As the urban wing of the Underground Railroad, they helped as many as ten thousand refugees, building an elaborate network of like-minded sympathizers across boundaries of nation, gender, race, and class. Olsavsky reveals how the committees cultivated a movement of ideas animated by a motley assortment of agitators and intellectuals, including famous figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Henry David Thoreau, who shared critical information with one another. Formerly enslaved runaways—who grasped the economy of slavery, developed their own political imaginations, and communicated strategies of resistance to abolitionists—serve as the book’s central focus. The dialogues between fugitives and abolitionists further radicalized the latter’s tactics and inspired novel forms of feminism, prison reform, and utopian constructs. These notions transformed abolitionism into a revolutionary movement, one at the heart of the crises that culminated in the Civil War.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Union |
ISBN | : |
Memoir of William Randall Saxton, of Lebanon, Conn
Author | : Charles Turner Torrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Christian biography |
ISBN | : |
Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
Author | : Library Company of Philadelphia |
Publisher | : Boston : G. K. Hall |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author | : New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
On Freedom's Altar
Author | : Hazel Catherine Wolf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |