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Dr. Paul Polgar explains how the nation moved from very limited anti-slavery sentiment before the 1760s to a more vibrant anti-slavery posture in the 1780s and 1790s.  He describes the difference between those who were against the Atlantic slave trade and those that had moral and economic arguments to end slavery.  The talk covers early manumission laws and how the political creed of the American Revolution had an impact on the anti-slavery movement.  Dr. Polgar is an expert on the 1790 Congressional debate on slavery and race.  He explains the petitions that were brought by the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the Quakers.  He covers the pro-slavery argument of those in the states more dependent on slavery such as South Carolina and Georgia.  Polgar includes an explanation of the role some of the Founding Fathers played in the early debate to end slavery to include Franklin, Hamilton and Washington.  He finishes with a discussion on how the later abolition societies benefited from the early arguments and work of the individuals in the Revolutionary period.HOST:  Rob MellonFEATURED BREW:  Goose Oktoberfest, Goose Island Beer CompanyBOOK:  Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movementhttps://www.amazon.com/Standard-Bearers-Equality-Abolition-Published-University/dp/1469653931MUSIC:  Bones Forkhttps://bonesfork.com/

Dr. Paul Polgar explains how the nation moved from very limited anti-slavery sentiment before the 1760s to a more vibrant anti-slavery posture in the 1780s and 1790s.  He describes the difference between those who were against the Atlantic slave trade and those that had moral and economic arguments to end slavery.  The talk covers early manumission laws and how the political creed of the American Revolution had an impact on the anti-slavery movement.  Dr. Polgar is an expert on the 1790 Congressional debate on slavery and race.  He explains the petitions that were brought by the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the Quakers.  He covers the pro-slavery argument of those in the states more dependent on slavery such as South Carolina and Georgia.  Polgar includes an explanation of the role some of the Founding Fathers played in the early debate to end slavery to include Franklin, Hamilton and Washington.  He finishes with a discussion on how the later abolition societies benefited from the early arguments and work of the individuals in the Revolutionary period. HOST:  Rob Mellon FEATURED BREW:  Goose Oktoberfest, Goose Island Beer Company BOOK:  Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Bearers-Equality-Abolition-Published-University/dp/1469653931" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Bearers-Equality-Abolition-Published-University/dp/1469653931</a> MUSIC:  Bones Fork <a href="https://bonesfork.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bonesfork.com/</a>

Revolutionary Political Creed and the Standard-Bearers of Equality: The First National Debate on Slavery (Paul Polgar)

Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, he unearths this coalition's comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality. By guarding and expanding the rights of people of African descent and demonstrating that black Americans could become virtuous citizens of the new Republic, these activists, whom Polgar names "first movement abolitionists," sought to end white prejudice and eliminate racial inequality. Beginning in the 1820s, however, colonization threatened to eclipse this racially inclusive movement. Colonizationists claimed that what they saw as permanent black inferiority and unconquerable white prejudice meant that slavery could end only if those freed were exiled from the United States. In pulling many reformers into their orbit, this radically different antislavery movement marginalized the activism of America's first abolitionists and obscured the racially progressive origins of American abolitionism that Polgar now recaptures.

“The Standard-Bearers of Equality” with Paul Polgar