Day 1 - Afternoon - Topic 2 Overview

Abolitionism Movement during American Expansion (1800-1850)

Early Abolitionism – Quakers et al… (Images can be found in a Prezi presentation here: http://prezi.com/100368/)

• The African-American Mosaic – LOC online exhibit – Abolition Section:

Collection Page http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html

A 1791 Anti-Slavery Sermon - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr106.html

Minutes of the proceeding of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies

The Slaves Friend – Abolitionist periodical for children (1836-1838)

Anti-Slavery Fair Advertisement

Broadside condemning the sale and keeping of slaves in the District of Columbia

Joseph Cinquez, the brave Congolese Chief, who prefers death to slavery, and who now lies in jail (1839)

"Get off the track!" A song for emancipation, sung by The Hutchinsons (1844)

The fugitive's song (1845)

The Negro Woman’s Appeal –  (1850’s)

Grimke’ Sisters

GRIMKÉ, ANGELINA EMILY. Wood engraving in E. C. Stanton History of Woman Suffrage, [1881?]

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pog.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a03000/3a03300/3a03341u.tif

GRIMKÉ, SARAH MOORE. Wood engraving in E. C. Stanton History of Woman Suffrage, [1881?]

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pog.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a03000/3a03300/3a03340u.tif

Frederick Douglas

Hon. Fred. Douglass on platform in [the] Pavilion 1892 March 26.  (Need to find full size – LOC only has thumbnail available

Frederick Douglass [between 1865 and 1880]

David Walker

Snippet from “David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles, together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World . . . (September 1829).”

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html - 0118

Entire Book:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gcmisc&fileName=ody/ody0118/ody0118page.db&recNum=1&itemLink=/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html@0118&linkText=9

William Lloyd Garrison (1838-1909)

Portrait

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbcmillerbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbcmiller003886))

Human equality. By William Lloyd Garrison.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(as105600))

Were some Abolitionists Racists? Moral opposition to slavery, but not equality.

Darwin

http://askville.amazon.com/Darwin-racist/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=11952541

Need to track to original source

Abe Lincoln

http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa082800a.htm

Need to track to original source

Back to Africa Movement/Colonization Movement

Liberia

Cow Island Haiti

Slave Revolt

Joseph Cinquez, the brave Congolese Chief, who prefers death to slavery, and who now lies in jail (1839)

Black Self-Emancipation

Abolitionists on Slave Revolt

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Odd-Fellow's Hall. Thursday Even'g, June 8. Last night Uncle Tom's Cabin!

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/scsmbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(scsm000268))

Other Resources:

The Massachusetts hoar, outwitted, or hopping-John, and Johnny-vake, for cod fish 'notions,' wide awake!!! (1845)

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b38595))+@field(COLLID+pcus))

Am I not a man and a brother? 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains."

Image of woodcut:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g05321))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Entire page woodcut and poem (Not legible)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Our_Countrymen_in_Chains.jpg

Text of Poem (Different Text  so may be different):

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1192:1.lincoln