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abolitionists
abolitionists Person who sought to end
slavery. In the UK, William
Wilberforce headed the Clapham Sect that led to the cessation of Britain's role in the slave trade in 1807. In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published
The Liberator, an antislavery journal. The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1833, and within five years such societies boasted more than 250,000 members. Harriet Beecher
Stowe's abolitionist novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) sold more than 300,000 copies in its first year. The militant actions of abolitionists culminated in the raid on the US arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, led by John
Brown. The bitter antagonism between North and South over slavery was a major cause of the American
Civil War.
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American Abolitionists.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...developing the abolitionist movement...and men. Abolitionists became increasingly...few white abolitionists believed, as did black abolitionist Frederick...within the abolitionist movement...divided the abolitionists. The relative...
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Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
Magazine article from: Ibero-americana; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and the British Abolitionist Movement. Baton...discerned that the abolitionists were acutely aware...and the British Abolitionist Movement dissects...providing "...the abolitionists with a practical...influenced the abolitionists' commentary on...the forthright abolitionist- ...
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Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...3208-0.) In Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery...Jeffrey follows the abolitionist movement into the...more cartoonish; and abolitionists were depicted as incendiary...but the most famous abolitionist authors. The authors...shrinking public voice of abolitionists in the book's three...
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The Abolitionists: Models for a New Revolution
Magazine article from: Peacework; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...a lesson that abolitionists from the past can teach abolitionists today about bridging...distinction between the Abolitionist movement and...Like us, the Abolitionists of the 19th century...processes. The Abolitionist movement was...
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Composition's abolitionist debate: A tool for change
Magazine article from: Composition Studies; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...argument that the abolitionist debate is not one...COMMON GOAL OF NEw ABOLITIONISTS AND REFORMISTS In...analysis is complete, abolitionists and reformists are...the rise of the New Abolitionist movement, Robert...contrasts contemporary abolitionists with abolitionists...
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Frederick Douglass: a black abolitionist in Ireland: Bill Rolston describes the impact of an erstwhile slave, who toured the Emerald Isle speaking out against slavery in 1845.
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the strong abolitionist lobby had...by American abolitionists. Undoubtedly...attending abolitionist events. As in England, abolitionists in Ireland...backbone of the abolitionist movement. Irish abolitionists saw no inconsistency...
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Reading race and intertextuality from the abolitionist era to the Harlem Renaissance.(Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature)(Word, Image and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance)(Book review)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...radical black and white abolitionists advocating an immediate...point out that the abolitionist movement and the New...Although radical abolitionists were perhaps more...possibilities of the abolitionists' democratic discourse...frames the radical abolitionist struggle within the...
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Repealing unions: American abolitionists, Irish repeal, and the origins of Garrisonian disunionism.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...those same years, abolitionists in the United States...joined by a vocal abolitionist minority--including...precisely analogous to abolitionists' line of policy...the United States. Abolitionists promoted the Address...new transatlantic abolitionist networks, and the...
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PHYSICIAN, FARMER, ABOLITIONIST; MANLIUS-BORN JAMES CALEB JACKSON WORKED FOR FREEDOM.(SERIES: Black History Month)(Neighbors East)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/26/2004; 700+ words
; ...and published abolitionist newspapers. He...the day and how abolitionists were treated with...founder of the abolitionist Liberty Party...second tier" of abolitionists, but "he probably...became involved in abolitionist issues through...heard speeches by abolitionists and decided ...
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ABOLITIONISTS HELPED SLAVE WEND WAY TO FREEDOM.(SERIES: STOPS ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM)(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...Railroad and the abolitionist movement. Abolitionists in Madison and...Federal Dana, an abolitionist from Fenner...his own, in the abolitionist newspaper Friend...the hands of the abolitionists; and the trickling...
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abolitionists
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of the slaves. Abolitionists are distinguished...antislavery cause. The abolitionist movement was one...slave states with abolitionist literature, sent...Columbia. The abolitionists were at first...the murder of abolitionist editor Elijah...constitutional rights. Abolitionists ...
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Abolitionist
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Abolitionist, name applied to one who aimed at...this conflict emerged three schools of Abolitionist thought: radical Abolitionism under...Two events in 1831 accelerated the Abolitionist movement and the hostility to it...
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abolitionist
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
abolitionist n. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery. abolitionism n.
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Abolitionists
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Abolitionists in the 19th century, supporters of the abolition of the slave-trade; the term is recorded from the early 19th century.
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Reform Movements: Abolition
Book article from: American Eras
...meetings, destroyed abolitionist printing presses...mob attacks on white abolitionists and free African Americans...Tappan, a prominent abolitionist leader in New York...after the murder of abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy...sympathized with the abolitionists ’ right...
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