Book contents
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- 16 Foreign Relations between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900
- 17 Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924
- 18 The Antislavery International
- 19 American Missionaries in the World
- 20 Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism
- 21 Colonial Intimacies in US Empire
- 22 Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
18 - The Antislavery International
from Part III - Americans and the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- 16 Foreign Relations between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900
- 17 Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924
- 18 The Antislavery International
- 19 American Missionaries in the World
- 20 Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism
- 21 Colonial Intimacies in US Empire
- 22 Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
Summary
Frederick Douglass spoke for many when he told a Glasgow audience, during his first visit to Britain, that the aim of the antislavery international was the construction of a cordon of antislavery feeling around the United States. It was bounded by “Canada on the North, Mexico in the west, and England, Scotland and Ireland on the east, so that wherever a slaveholder went, he might hear nothing but denunciation of slavery, that he might be looked down upon as a man-stealing, cradle-robbing, and woman-stripping monster, and that he might see reproof and detestation on every hand.”1 The movement relied on the cooperation of people of good faith, men and women, black and white, committed to the destruction of slavery wherever it existed. It appealed to all classes and races, from the aristocracy of Stafford House, as J. Sella Martin a fugitive slave put it, to the “hard-handed working men of the great railway works of Stratford” in London’s East End.
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 433 - 451Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022