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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.
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 with an essay that contextualizes the documents and guides readers toward perceiving the narrative that comes into focus when the seemingly disparate elements are read as a collection. Annotations throughout the book translate difficult passages into lay language, suggest comparisons of key passages, and encourage the reader to cross-reference documents within the volume. This book will illuminate American abolitionism and U.S. history prior to the Civil War while helping readers improve their ability to analyze and interpret primary source information—a key skill for both high school and undergraduate level students.
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,
