The Abolitionist Movement: Documents Decoded

by Christopher Cameron

Overview

Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that allows readers to consider history more directly through more than 20 primary source documents.

• Includes a concise introduction that summarizes the critical points in the history of slavery and abolition

• Provides carefully selected key documents that represent the full range of American thoughts on slavery

• Supplies useful annotations that guide the reader's analysis and shows how historians deconstruct documents

• Presents information and materials that help readers to understand the forces that supported and opposed slavery, thereby giving students a better grasp of American history in general

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610695138
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/23/2014
Series:	Documents Decoded
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	253
File size:	660 KB

About the Author

Christopher Cameron, PhD, is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Table of Contents

Introduction,
SLAVERY AND RACIAL THOUGHT IN COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
Quakers and Abolitionism,
Petition of Germantown Quakers
1688
Puritan Protests,
Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph
1700
Race and the Enlightenment,
David Hume, "Of National Characters"
1758
The Colonial Crisis and Abolitionism,
James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
1764
Organized Black Abolitionism,
Petition of Massachusetts Blacks to the General Court
1773
African and Indian Alliances,
Phillis Wheatley, "Letter to Samson Occom"
1774
Black Masons Protest Slavery,
Petition of Prince Hall to the General Court
1777
Antislavery Poetry,
Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of General Wooster"
1778
"No Taxation without Representation,"
Petition of John and Paul Cuffe to the General Court
1780
"A Suspicion Only,"
Thomas Jefferson, Excerpt from Notes on the State of Virginia
1785
Slavery and the Constitution,
Gouverneur Morris, "Constitutional Convention Speech"
1787
Atlantic Crossings,
Josiah Wedgwood, "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"
1787
ABOLITIONISM AND PROSLAVERY THOUGHT IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
Slavery and Power,
Thomas Ruffin Opinion in State v. Mann, North Carolina Supreme Court
1829
Early Black Nationalism,
David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
1829
"I Will Be Heard,"
William Lloyd Garrison, "To the Public"
1831
Female Prophets of Abolition,
Maria Stewart, "Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston"
1833
Southern Abolitionists,
Angelina Grimké, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
1836
Antislavery and Women's Rights,
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?"
1837
Slave Narratives,
Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States
1837
"Republicanism a Sham,"
Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
1852
Foundation of the Confederacy,
Alexander Stephens, "Cornerstone Speech"
1861
Finally Free,
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
The Meaning of the War,
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
1865
Timeline,
Further Reading,
Index,
About the Author,