Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle / Edition 1

by Milton Sernett

Overview

Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer, and one of New York's most important abolitionists, this book is the first published history of Green and his attempt to create a model biracial society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815630227
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2004
Series:	New York State Study Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Milton C. Sernett is professor of African American studies and history and adjunct professor of religion at Syracuse University. He is the author of Black Religion and American Evangelicalism and Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration. His most recent book, North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom, was published by Syracuse University Press.

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	viii
	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction	xix
1.	Forged in New England	3
2.	Axe-Honing on the Western Reserve	17
3.	Hewing Oneida Institute	31
4.	"To Cut the Cord of Caste"	49
5.	Weapons of the Mind	65
6.	"A Troubler of Israel"	79
7.	"Gone, Gone, Sold & Gone"	93
8.	The Axe and the Political Scepter	109
9.	"A Voice in the Wilderness"	127
10.	Stayed on Righteousness	143
	Notes	157
	Bibliography	181
	Index	195

Editorial Reviews

Sernett's book insures that no one can ignore Beriah Green when considering great figures in the history of American reform and black education.

Religious Studies Review

Milton Sernett captures the forceful image of Green and paints a very strong revealing portrait of a man of great moral intensity, a minister who had little inclination to pastor but a great burning need to instruct and reform those about him.

Education Studies

An important contribution to the study of the abolitionist movement as well as to the history of education.

History of Education Quarterly