Blacks in the abolitionist movement
In: A Wadsworth series: explorations in the Black experience
In: A Wadsworth series: explorations in the Black experience
In: Documents Decoded
In: Documents Decoded Ser.
The Abolitionist Movement: Documents Decoded collects primary sources pertaining to various aspects of the American anti-slavery movement in the 18th and 19th centuries and presents these firsthand sources alongside accessibly written, expert commentary in a visually stimulating format. Making use of primary source documents that include pamphlets, articles, speeches, slave narratives, and court decisions, the book models how scholars interpret primary sources and shows readers how to critically evaluate the key documents that chronicle this major American movement. The work begins
Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war
In Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition, Justin Buckley Dyer provides a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War. Within the context of recent revisionist scholarship, Dyer argues that the theoretical foundations of American constitutionalism - which he identifies with principles of natural law - were antagonistic to slavery. Still, the continued existence of slavery in the nineteenth century created a tension between practice and principle. In a series of case studies, Dyer reconstructs the constitutional arguments of prominent antislavery thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, who collectively sought to overcome the legacy of slavery by emphasizing the natural law foundations of American constitutionalism. What emerges is a convoluted understanding of American constitutional development that challenges traditional narratives of linear progress while highlighting the centrality of natural law to America's greatest constitutional crisis
In: The Bedford Series in History and Culture Ser.
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PART ONE Introduction: "Our Rights as Moral Beings -- Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society -- Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833 -- Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and Sarah Grimké Speak in New York, July 1836-May 1837 -- Redefining the Rights of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimké Speak in Massachusetts, Summer 1837 -- The Antislavery Movement Splits Over the Question of Women's Rights, 1837-1840 -- An Independent Women's Rights Movement Is Born, 1840-1858 -- Epilogue: The New Movement Splits Over the Question of Race, 1850-1869 -- PART TWO The Documents -- Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833 -- 1. Lucretia Mott, Life and Letters, 1884 -- 2. Constitution of the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society, 1831 -- 3. Maria Stewart, Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, 1831 -- 4. Maria Stewart, Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, 1832 -- 5. Maria Stewart, Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston, 1833 -- Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and Sarah Grimké Speak in New York, July 1836-May 1837 -- 6. American Anti-Slavery Society, Petition Form for Women, 1834 -- 7. Angelina Grimké, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836 -- 8. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, New York, December 17, 1836 -- 9. Angelina Grimké, Letter to jane Smith, New York, January 20, 1837 -- 10. Angelina Grimké, Letter to jane Smith, New York, February 4, 1837 -- 11. Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Letter to Sarah Douglass, Newark, N.J., February 22, 1837 -- 12. Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Letter to Sarah Douglass, New York City, April3, 1837 -- 13. Sarah Forten, Letter to Angelina Grimké, Philadelphia, April15, 1837.
In: Landmarks of the American mosaic
In: Landmarks of the American Mosaic Ser.
Contrary to popular misconception, race and skin color played almost no role in the history of slavery in the world prior to the 17th century. But by the 1800s, the form of slavery practiced in the American South was based almost exclusively on race and skin color
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Antislavery Movement -- Introduction -- Antislavery Movement, 1700s-1830s -- Antislavery Movement, 1830s-1840s -- Antislavery Movement, 1840s-1850s -- Antislavery Movement, 1860-1865 -- Abolition: Humanitarian and Revolutionary Ideas -- Moderate, Radical, and Militant Abolition -- Frederick Douglass and Antislavery -- Free Blacks: Foundations of Polities -- Antislavery Resistance: An Overview -- North-South Reactions to Antislavery -- 2. Civil Rights Movement -- Introduction -- Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1910 -- Movement to Abolish Convict Labor -- Anti-Lynching Movement -- Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1930 -- Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association Movement -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Civil Rights Movement, 1930-1953 -- Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970 -- Nonviolent Direct Action -- Congress of Racial Equality -- Civil Rights Movement, 1970-1990 -- Racial Violence and the Civil Rights Movement -- Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement -- Anti-Apartheid Movement -- Civil Rights Movement, 1990-2000 -- Civil Rights Movement, Twenty-First Century -- 3. Women's Movement -- Introduction -- Women's Social Movement, 1800-1869 -- Moral and Dress Reform Movement, 1800-1869 -- Matilda Joslyn Gage and Woman Suffrage History -- Popular Health Movement -- Women's Cooperative Housekeeping Movement -- Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 -- Women's Movement and Social Activism, 1865-1920 -- African-American Women's Movement, 1865-1920s -- Women and the Progressive Movement -- Women and the Anti-Imperialist Movement -- Working Women's Movement, Early Twentieth Century -- Birth Control Movement -- Women's Movement, 1920-1960 -- Equal Rights Amendment -- Abortion Rights Movement.
"On the cusp of the American Civil War, a new generation of reformers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Robison Delany and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, took the lead in the antislavery struggle. Frustrated by political defeats, a more aggressive slave power, and the inability of early abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison to rid the nation of slavery, the New Romantics crafted fresh, often more combative, approaches to the peculiar institution. Contrary to what many scholars have argued, however, they did not reject Romantic reform in the process. Instead, the New Romantics roamed widely through Romantic modes of thought, embracing not only the immediatism and perfectionism pioneered by Garrisonians but also new motifs and doctrines, including sentimentalism, self-culture, martial heroism, Romantic racialism, and Manifest Destiny. This book tells the story of how antebellum America's most important intellectual current, Romanticism, shaped the coming and course of the nation's bloodiest--and most revolutionary--conflict"--
In: ˜Theœ Nathan I. Huggins lectures
In: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Slavery, Property, and Emancipation in Revolutionary America -- 2. The Federal Convention and the Curse of Heaven -- 3. Slavery, Antislavery, and the Struggle for Ratification -- 4. To the Missouri Crisis -- 5. Antislavery, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
In: Yale historical publications
In: Miscellany 17
In: Studies in Evangelicalism 2