David Ruggles

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David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. A forceful, courageous voice for black freedom, Ruggles mentored Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William Cooper Nell in the skills of antislavery activism. As a founder of the New York Committee of Vigilance, he advocated a "practical abolitionism" that included civil disobedience and self-defense in order to preserve the rights of self-emancipated enslaved people and to protect free blacks from kidnappers who would sell them into slavery in the South. Hodges's narrative places Ruggles in the fractious politics and society of New York, where he moved among the highest ranks of state leaders and spoke up for common black New Yorkers. His work on the Committee of Vigilance inspired many upstate New York and New England whites, who allied with him to form a network that became the Underground Railroad. Hodges's portrait of David Ruggles establishes the abolitionist as an essential link between disparate groups--male and female, black and white, clerical and secular, elite and rank-and-file--recasting the history of antebellum abolitionism as a more integrated and cohesive movement than is often portrayed.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Release : 2010-03-15
File : 281 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780807895795


Facsimile Of Letter From General Lafayette To David Ruggles

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Author : Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier marquis de Lafayette
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Release : 1830
File : 4 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:C2743664


Library Of Universal Adventure By Sea And Land

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Genre : Adventure and adventurers
Author : William Dean Howells
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Release : 1888
File : 1056 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433082143706


The Rising Son

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Genre : African Americans
Author : William Wells Brown
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Release : 1874
File : 576 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000115269890


The Rising Son Or The Antecedents And Advancement Of The Colored Race

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Genre : African Americans
Author : William Wells Brown
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Release : 1882
File : 576 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCD:31175028738667


Bibliotheca Americana

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Genre : America
Author : Joseph Sabin
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Release : 1889
File : 596 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HB9RPC


A Dictionary Of Books Relating To America

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Genre : America
Author : Joseph Sabin
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Release : 1889
File : 592 Pages
ISBN-13 : NLS:V000012623


The History Of Florence Massachusetts

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Genre : Florence (Mass.)
Author : Charles Arthur Sheffeld
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Release : 1894
File : 270 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044013686068


History Of Hanover Township

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Genre : Hanover (Luzerne County, Pa. : Township)
Author : Henry Blackman Plumb
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Release : 1885
File : 514 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HX4RAT


Blacks In Selected Newspapers Censuses And Other Sources

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Genre : African Americans
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Release : 1977
File : 778 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015031703872