From Anti-slavery Sentiment to Eradication;.
Reasons for the Abolition of Enslavement.
From the Missouri Compromise to the Emancipation Declaration .
SUMMARY.
The drive to end slavery gradually became the dominant American reform movement from 1820-1863. The new antislavery crusade had a strong sectional character, and the activists criticized human bondage as contrary to the principles of republicanism and liberty, which was accepted as a "necessary evil." Beginning in the 1830's, a number of outspoken abolitionists condemned slavery as a sin and saw it as their moral duty to end this violation of God's law. .
SOURCES.
Blaustein, Albert P. Civil Rights and the American Negro: Washington Square Press, 1968.
Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: Third Edition. McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000.
Bedford/St. Martin's. America's History: Fourth Edition. RR Donnelley & Sons Company, 2000.
Davis, Kenneth C. Don't Know Much About History: New York, New York, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1990. .
United States History Index. http://www.ukans.edu/~usa/index.html: Maintained by a history professor and arranged by subject: labor history and agricultural history.
Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History. http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/afrores.html: This site is indexed and linked to a wide variety of sources, including primary documents, text collections, and archival sources on African American history. Individual documents such as slave narratives and petitions: the Fugitive Slave Act. .
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The most powerful of all abolitionists propoganda was Hariiet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published as a book in 1852. It sold more than 300,000 copies within a year and became one of the most remarkable best sellers in American history. The book succeeded in bringing the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience.
John Brown: He was a huge abolitionist who led uprising in Kansas and Virginia.
