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The Antislavery Movement in Iowa, 1833-1860
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Antislavery Thought in the Border South, 1830-1860
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Appropriated Voices: William Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” and British Antislavery Poetry
<p>British antislavery poetry in the late 1700s is well characterized by the first stanza of William Blake’s poem “The Little Black Boy” when his black speaker says “o! my soul is white; … But I am black as if bereav’d of light” (2-4). These statements that seem to exclude each other exemplify the …
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Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785--1865
… The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785-1865 explores the connection between British women's abolitionist poetry and legislation on the slave trade and slavery. This nexus between literature and the law shows that authorship was an early vehicle for women to engage …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… cases, which became indispensible to increasing antislavery sentiment in the state.</p> <p>For most of the antebellum period, Democrats had controlled Indiana politically. In the 1852 national and state elections, Hoosiers emphatically endorsed the "finality" of the 1850 Compromise package by …
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The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860
As for the extent of antislavery sentiment in the South, there are reasons to believe that many white Southerners doubted slavery's morality. First, the attributes displayed by manumitted emigrants---the talents and intelligence which led ACS slaveholders to reject proslavery arguments---were no …
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
The “Myth of the Slaveless Society” explores antislavery sentiment in Massachusetts from the founding of the colony to the legal abolition of slavery in the newfound state in 1783. It argues that white colonists there told a story of themselves, to themselves, that denied the reality of chattel …
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The Spring Street Church in the Age of Abolition
… 19th century. Research focuses on religious antislavery during the Second Great Awakening and the place occupied by the Spring Street congregation as led by three of its antislavery pastors: Samuel H. Cox (1820-1825), Henry G. Ludlow, (1828-1837), and William Patton, (1837-1847). The study …
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Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861
… historiography. By contextualizing southern antislavery activism as but a single wing within a broader reformist movement, historians can move beyond simplistic interpretations of these antislavery advocates as fool-hardy and tangential "losers." While opposition to slavery constituted a key …
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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
… depicts how Thoreau's fellow antebellum antislavery writers discerned the power of concepts to shape "the universe." Wishing for a new universe, one free of slavery, they spent their lives crafting new concepts. "Ground Plans" argues that antebellum antislavery writers confiscated the …
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Haratin di Mauritania: da status ascritto a rivendicazione identitaria. La schiavitù in prospettiva postcoloniale
… didn‟t deeply change their condition, some antislavery policies were applied at the beginning of the territorial expansion. From late 1880s, especially in northern Senegal and Mali, the French tried to carry out an antislavery action by creating some „freedom villages‟ where runaway slaves …
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
… writing skills to encourage public support for antislavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the "little lady" who allegedly caused the big war, took advantage of her enormous popularity in England to urge British support for the Union. A young Philadelphia teenager named Anna Dickinson rose to prominence …
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Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833
… between the moral imperatives of the antislavery movement in the New England and the mid- Atlantic, and their connections to evolving manufacturing and agricultural political economies premised on free labor regimes. Tracing the sweep of history from the British-American imperial …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… rights occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic principles of equality upon which the nation was founded, the struggle for freedom for Black Americans and their natural rights to liberty and …
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"Can These Be The Sons of Their Fathers" The Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1831-1832
… was dismissed as impractical, a more radical antislavery doctrine was proposed that challenged traditional beliefs concerning property and the function of government. This doctrine was the legal concept of eminent domain, the right of the state to take private property for public purposes …
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“THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861
… As more and more Americans took up pro- and antislavery stances, naval officers used federal power and their personal influence to help maintain the belief that compromise could preserve the Union.
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At the Crossroads of Civil War
… in the battle over Confederate recognition, an antislavery cause was the one remaining card the Union could play to avoid increasingly probable European intervention. Recognizing this, Lincoln sought a high-profile Union victory that could give him the political capital needed to proclaim the …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
… would permit slavery; the South believed that antislavery citizens would seize control of territorial governments and prohibit slavery.
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… explores how Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s three antislavery poems—“The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1847/1848), “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” (1850), and “A Curse for a Nation” (1855/1866)—extend beyond the issue of American slavery to address British racism. Representing blackness as a …
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