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	Abolitionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the movement was quite diverse, from the standpoint of the mainstream abolitionists, slaveholding interests went against their conception of the "Protestant work ethic".
		The abolitionist movement was begun by the activities of African-Americans, especially in the fl church, who argued that the old Biblical justifications for slavery contradicted the New Testament.
		Abolitionist principles were the basis for the later US civil rights movement of the mid 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abolitionism (2053 words)

	MSN Encarta - Abolitionist Movement
		Abolitionist Movement, reform movement during the 18th and 19th centuries.
		As a result of the abolitionist movement, the institution of slavery ceased to exist in Europe and the Americas by 1888, although it was not completely legally abolished in Africa until the first quarter of the 20th century.
		While the abolitionist movement’s greatest achievement was certainly the liberation of millions of fl people from servitude, it also reflected the triumph of modern ideas of freedom and human rights over older social forms based on privileged elites and social stratification.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570452/Abolitionist_Movement.html (1002 words)

	Abolitionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Abolitionism, a political movement that sought to abolish slavery and the slave trade, started with The Enlightenment and became a large movement in several nations of the 19th century.
		Abolitionists wanted it ended immediately and everywhere, and the movement was marked by a willingness to use violence to achieve that end, as exemplified by the activities of John Brown.
		The abolitionist movement was spearheaded by the activities of William Lloyd Garrison as its most effective propagandist.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/abolitionism (1031 words)

	Africans in America/Part 4/Eric Foner on the abolitionist movement
		Africans in America/Part 4/Eric Foner on the abolitionist movement
		And the first thing abolitionists had to do was just put the issue on the table, in a way that it couldn't be ignored.
		I think the greatest achievement of the Abolitionist Movement in its first decade was to make slavery a public issue, to destroy the conspiracy of silence on slavery.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4i2974.html (273 words)

	Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - Abolitionist Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Northern abolitionist women constructed a rhetoric of sisterhood that placed Black women, especially slaves, into abolitionist discourse by emphasizing the common bonds of womanhood, particularly motherhood, in order to gain the sympathies of Southern white women.
		Unlike other reform movements of the time, including temperance and antiprostitution groups, in which such questions rarely arose, by the mid-1830s abolitionist men and women furiously debated the "proper" role of women in public reform movements.
		The fact that abolitionists were already wrestling with the issue of racial equality as a goal of the movement created a climate ripe for discussions about equality between the sexes.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/women/html/wh_000200_abolitionist.htm (1125 words)

	African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy (Part 1)
		Abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth was enslaved in New York until she was an adult.
		White abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, born in 1805, had a particular fondness for poetry, which he believed to be "naturally and instinctively on the side of liberty." He used verse as a vehicle for enhancing anti-slavery sentiment.
		This abolitionist tract, distributed by the Sunday School Union, uses actual life stories about slave children separated from their parents or mistreated by their masters to excite the sympathy of free children.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html (1430 words)

	MSN Encarta - Abolitionist Movement
		The first goal of the Quaker abolitionists was to end slave trading among fellow Quakers because the barbarity of the buying and selling of slaves was more obvious than that of the institution of slavery as a whole.
		However, when West Indian planters refused to make concessions, the abolitionists hardened their stance, and by the late 1820s abolitionists were demanding immediate slave emancipation.
		By the 1740s Quaker abolitionists John Woolman and Anthony Benezet were urging other Quakers to cease their involvement in the slave trade and to break all connections with slavery.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570452_2/Abolitionist_Movement.html (1200 words)

	St. Charles Heritage Center - Historic STC - Abolitionist Movement
		Abolitionists and sympathizers may or may not have helped in a slave’s journey, but those who did help were referred to as "conductors" and the temporary hideouts as "stations." St. Charles has several stations in which tunnels, false doorways, and small hideouts are found.
		The abolitionists involved in these organizations were the outspoken supporters of human rights at their time.
		A resolution was passed on September 24, 1844 stating: "we hail the formation of female anti-slavery societies, and the enlistment of female talent and effort, as affording the strongest grounds for encouragement, and the surest evidence of success on our holy cause." Over thirty women were among the original signers of Society’s constitution.
	www.stcmuseum.org /historic10.html (809 words)

	Frederick Douglass: abolitionist, author, and orator
		Douglass and the abolitionists thus hailed Lincoln's Proclamation with near-religious zeal.
		In this context, the abolitionist movement had a direct and positive influence on his writings and on his career.
		The blessings that the movement bestowed upon him have since been magnified greatly and his positive influence on national history and civil rights is now far-reaching.
	mattbrundage.com /publications/douglass.html (2424 words)

	Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		Anti-colonization sentiment was common in abolitionist publications such as The Anti-Slavery Picknick, a collection of speeches, poems, dialogues, and songs intended for use in schools and anti-slavery meetings.
		Well-known abolitionists such as Maria W. Chapman, a spirited speaker, song writer, and editor of many volumes of The Liberty Bell songbook, and Helen E. Garrison, wife of William Lloyd Garrison, were involved in the event.
		Abolitionist materials aimed at women often appealed to their sympathetic feeling as wives and mothers for the plight of slave women who might be separated from their husbands or children.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam005.html (1558 words)

	The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic, by Richard S. Newman. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Abolitionist petitions routinely pushed state and federal governments to prohibit the domestic and overseas slave trade, to stop slavery's westward expansion, and to eradicate the institution itself in federally controlled areas, such as the District of Columbia.
		Despite the impact of these extensive societal changes, second-wave abolitionists were not merely "reactors" (suddenly set in motion by a change in economic philosophy or political ideology) but agents of history who changed with the times and changed their times.
		When Elizabeth Chandler told would-be abolitionist women that they "must give it their active exertions" to finally end slavery, she spoke the keynote for a whole new generation of activists—fl as well as white, women as well as men, nonelites as well as the so-called better sort.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/newman_transformation.html (5207 words)

	Lesson P - The Abolitionist Movement
		Abolitionist Societies began to spring up throughout the state during the late 18th century.
		Politically, the Abolitionists put enough pressure on the legislature to pass a law in 1787 that weakened slavery throughout the state.
		Although the Abolitionists were successful in helping to free thousands of slaves in Delaware, they were unsuccessful in legally abolishing the institution.
	www.state.de.us /sos/dpa/outreach/education/lessonp.shtml (1635 words)

	AAP Brief History of Movement
		Abolitionists recognized that slavery received moral support from racial prejudice, and they lobbied to overturn the nation’s racially discriminatory practices.
		The "woman's issue" complicated quarrels among abolitionists regarding tactics in the religious and political spheres, and the problems led to a schism between the factions.
		Non-Garrisonian abolitionists were reluctant to support the Liberty party because of its allegiance with the moralistic Whig party.
	americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu /brief.htm (1857 words)

	"Bury Me in a Free Land": The Abolitionist Movement in Indiana, 1816-1865
		Abolitionists and antislavery advocates throughout the nation railed against annexation, fearing the extension of slavery into the Southwest.
		Despite northern and abolitionist antipathy toward annexation, Texas was admitted to the Union as a slave state in 1845.
		Abolitionists, in Indiana as elsewhere, were outraged by the Compromise of 1850--especially the revised Fugitive Slave Law--and believed that the North had "sold out" to the South.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/ugrr/buryme11.html (2780 words)

	Abolitionist Art- African-American History Through the Arts
		His art was of importance to the American Abolitionist movement because it clearly depicted the suffering which slaves were put through by their masters.
		Black abolitionists had a special year in 1829, David Walker's "Appeal" was a blast against slavery, and the protest by George Moses Horton from North Carolina was cried out in his "Hope of Liberty." When the period of armed abolitionism began, African-Americans were ready to join whites in fighting slavery.
		White abolitionists took great pride in speaking against the popular belief that fls were not able to learn to write, read, or make decisions, Black abolitionists spoke and wrote about the emancipation of slaves, Most of African-Americans papers written before the Civil War were those which endorsed emancipation.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /african-american/precivil/abolition.htm (735 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From the 1830s until 1870, the abolitionist movement attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation and discrimination.
		Although abolitionist feelings had been strong during the American Revolution and in the Upper South during the 1820s, the abolitionist movement did not coalesce into a militant crusade until the 1830s.
		Although historians debate the extent of the abolitionists' influence on the nation's political life after 1840, their impact on northern culture and society is undeniable.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_000300_abolitionist.htm (1020 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Six: The Abolitionists (4/15)
		The abolitionist movement that emerged in the early 1830s was combative, uncompromising and insistent upon an immediate end to slavery.
		Other abolitionists, unwilling to subscribe to his law-defying tactics, held that reform should be accomplished by legal and peaceful means.
		In addition, abolitionists decided to flood Congress with petitions calling for a ban on slavery in the District of Columbia.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch6_p4.htm (664 words)

	The Legacy of Racial Inequality in Antislavery Historiography
		Those historians who celebrated the morality and determination of the antislavery movement, according to Perry, characterized abolitionists as the “children of light” motivated by religious beliefs and mobilized by evangelicalism (xiii).
		Disillusioned by the unwillingness of orthodox religion to fully advocate their cause, Perry insists, both moderate and radical abolitionists began to sever ties with organized religion, adopting the Garrisonian belief of “come-outerism”: that any parish which refused to advocate the immediate abolition of slavery merely perpetuated the evil institution by promoting northern white racism (69).
		The roots of abolitionism, according to Walters, lay within the evangelical revivalism of the early nineteenth century, during which religious perfectionism motivated thousands of Americans to adopt the moral suasion arguments of the antislavery cause as “teachers, preachers, and prophets” (25).
	www.eiu.edu /~historia/2003/historiography.htm (3088 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Abolitionist Movement
		Often called the antislavery movement, it sought to end the enslavement of...
		Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896), American writer and abolitionist, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a forceful indictment of slavery and one of...
		Abolitionist Movement : pictures related to the abolitionist movement
	encarta.msn.com /Abolitionist_Movement.html (195 words)

	"Bury Me in a Free Land": The Abolitionist Movement in Indiana, 1816-1865
		Southerners viewed congressional actions, along with those of abolitionists, as increasingly "radical." "But for the interference of the fanatical and indescreet [sic] portion of the North," Thomas Campbell claimed, "[colonization] would now be in active operation in the state of Kentucky.
		By late summer abolitionists and fls were anxiously anticipating the president's announcement, and Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, asked the president what his intentions were.
		Although the abolitionists' immediate goal was realized when the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment eliminated the "peculiar institution" of chattel slavery from American society, the wheels their crusade set in motion continue to turn.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/ugrr/buryme12.html (2325 words)

	PAL:The Anti-Slavery Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		During all this time Brown was involved in the Abolitionist movement, though not deep at first his feelings slowly changed and he became more and more involved.
		He was beginning to become frustrated with the movement and in 1839, a Negro preacher helped move him to the cause full throttle.
		The Harper's Ferry Raid was one of the best-known raids in the movement.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/abolish.html (2449 words)

	Research Paper on Abolitionist Movement
		The Abolitionist Movement During the thirty years that preceded the Civil War, abolitionism was a major factor in electoral politics.
		By the year 1834, there existed a weak framework of abolitionists, many who were determined free fls from the north who had a common goal, the emancipation of slavery.
		Though many abolitionists were guided by their own sectional interests, a new type of thought was occurring, that even fls are considered “men” in the eyes of the almighty Lord.
	www.paper-research.com /paper/Abolitionist_Movement-132921.html (165 words)

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		Eventually, abolitionists came to notice that the profits from the sugar in their teacup and the rum in their barrel were what kept the slave trade in business.
		This is important, among other reasons, because although the abolitionist movement in Britain was founded and given its initial energy largely by men, it was groups of abolitionist women who later radicalized the movement at a crucial time.
		He is more able to gauge, and puts more emphasis on, the impact the boycott movement had on bringing together abolitionists in common cause, and in strengthening the idea of popular protest and of political action by people denied power in the political establishment.
	www.sniggle.net /Experiment/index.php?entry=11Jan05 (1918 words)

	Abolitionist Movement -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Abolitionist groups are increasingly giving survivors of slavery a platform to tell their stories and to demand action.
		A movement is not merely a perpetuated crowd, since a crowd does not possess organizational and motivational mechanisms capable of sustaining membership through periods of inaction and waiting.
		Until that time a very wide range of offenses, including even common theft, were punishable by death—though the punishment was not always enforced, in part because juries tended to acquit defendants against the evidence...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9272685?tocId=9272685 (827 words)

	Africans in America/Part 4/David Blight on racism in the abolitionist movement
		But one of the greatest frustrations that many fl abolitionists faced was the racism they sometimes experienced from their fellow white abolitionists.
		In many cases, within the Garrisonian movement in particular, the role of the fl speaker or the fl writer or the fl abolitionist was, in some ways, prescribed, as the famous case of Frederick Douglass' relationship with the Garrisionians.
		It was a problem for white abolitionists as well, because, in many ways, what they had discovered with fl speakers is the authentic fl voice, and they were using it all that they could, whether it was Douglass or whether it was Henry Garnett or whether it was others.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4i2978.html (365 words)

	History of the British abolitionist movement by Lord Peter Archer
		Between 1787, when the pioneers of our Movement formed the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and 1807, when Parliament abolished slave trading in British ships and by British subjects, a new science was invented.
		When they began to look abroad, it was clear that there was so much slavery in the world, and the problem so vast, that unless they selected specific goals, their energies and resources would be dissipated.
		But that Movement itself was split, and the splits were reflected among the British who became involved.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /huk-history.htm (2023 words)

	Underground Railroad and Anti-Slavery Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Anti-Slavery movement and crusade to assist fugitive slaves began prior to the Revolutionary War and continued then forth.
		One of major functions of the movement included the development of benelovence societies, such as the American Anti-Slavery Society [see 1833 Constitution] started by William Lloyd Garrison, churches such as African Methodist Episcopal and vigilante committees that were involved in fighting for the freedoms of fugitive slaves and the successful end to slavery.
		While many white abolitionists seen the passing of the 13th Amendment as a successful end to the plight of fls and began fighting for other un-related causes, fl abolitionists could not.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/mackey/isp523/fall2002/greenaway/movement.htm (451 words)

	civil rights movement -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		in the United States, mass movement starting in the late 1950s that, through the application of nonviolent protest action, broke the pattern of racially segregated public facilities in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for fls since the Reconstruction period (1865–77).
		civil-rights movement that advocates equal rights for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals; seeks to eliminate sodomy laws barring homosexual acts between consenting adults; and calls for an end to discrimination against gay men and lesbians in employment, credit lending, housing, public accommodations, and other areas of life.
		The Niagara Movement was the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9082763 (821 words)

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