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Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality
Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to strong political and religious values. Owen Lovejoy’s gregarious personality, formidable oratorical talent, probing political analysis, and profound religious convictions made him the powerful leader the coalition needed. Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality examines how these three distinct groups merged their agendas into a single antislavery, religious, political campaign for equality with Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy's crucial role in nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end slavery. Their compelling account explores how the immorality of slavery became a touchstone of political and religious action in the United States through the efforts of a synergetic coalition led by an essential abolitionist figure.
Collaborators for Emancipation
Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854. One was a cautious lawyer who deplored abolitionists' flouting of the law, the other an outspoken antislavery activist who captained a stop on the Underground Railroad. Yet the two built a relationship that, in Lincoln's words, "was one of increasing respect and esteem." In Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy, the authors examine the thorny issue of the pragmatism typically ascribed to Lincoln versus the radicalism of Lovejoy, and the role each played in ending slavery. Exploring the men's politics, personal traits, and religious convictions, the ...
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Addresses on the Death of Hon. Owen Lovejoy
Excerpt from Addresses on the Death of Hon. Owen Lovejoy: Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, on Monday, March 28, 1864 Mr. Speaker, owen lovejoy was no common man. In saying that in his death a great man has fallen, I speak it in no common or hackneyed sense, for he was great. He was great in the leading idea of his life; great in his convictions; great in the elements of his character, great in his eloquence, great in his courage; and great in his abiding and ever-livmg faith in the ultimate triumph of the eternal principles of right, justice, and humanity. No man who has succeeded in stamping his ideas and his principles, as he has, With the impress of indelibility, upon...
Addresses on the Death of Hon. Owen Lovejoy
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