To plead our own cause [electronic resource] : African Americans in Massachusetts and the making of the antislavery movement / Christopher Cameron.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Puritans and slavery -- Black abolitionist writers in the age of revolution -- Black petitioning and organized abolitionism in revolutionary Massachusetts -- Abolition of slavery and the slave trade -- Massachusetts blacks and the growth of the northern antislavery movement -- Black emigration and abolition in the early republic -- Abolitionism and the politics of slavery in early antebellum Massachusetts.

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