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Abolitionism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Slavery was then restored in 1802, but was re-abolished in 1848 in France and all countries in its (The domain ruled by an emperor or empress) empire. Although slavery was never widespread within (A division of the United Kingdom) England and even less in other parts of the United Kingdom, many English merchants became wealthy through the slave trade. Slavery still exists in many parts of (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa and (A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore) Southeast Asia. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abolitionism.htm   (2429 words)

slavery Collamer, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories. Slavery and four years of war; a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part: 1861-1865, by Joseph Warren Keifer. Slavery in the ancient Near East : a comparative study of slavery in Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, and Palestine from middle of the third millennium to the end of the first millennium. www.uvm.edu /~kbridges/slavery.html   (10683 words)

Slavery and Anti-Slavery (1852), by Rev. William Goodell (Constitutional Law and History) From this consideration, and from the limited extent of slavery in the northern and eastern colonies, it may be inferred that the slavery of that region was of a comparatively mild type. This was the commencement of negro slavery in the colonies."—Ib. Thus, in Virginia, where slavery, in fact, commenced in 1620, the first slave law cited by Stroud or by Spooner, is that of 1670, and most of the acts defining slavery are, perhaps, since 1700. medicolegal.tripod.com /goodellsaas.htm   (14757 words)

Against All Odds By the end of the 19th century, slavery was, at least on paper, outlawed almost everywhere. In Parliament, slavery's most colorful spokesman was the Duke of Clarence, one of the many dissolute sons of King George III. A coffin was inscribed "Colonial Slavery, died July 31st, 1838, aged 276 years" and was filled with chains, an iron collar, and a whip. www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2004/01/12_403.html   (6196 words)

Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Records "Slavery," according to the constitution of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, "is an evil that ought not to exist, and is a violation of the inalienable rights of man." In the summer of 1851, notices were distributed throughout Rochester, N.Y., to gather together any women interested in becoming active in the antislavery cause. At the end of the war, with the formal abolition of slavery and the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau, the edge was taken off the urgency of the (now) Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery and Freedmen's Aid Society, and the Society fairly rapidly dissolved. As a society devoted to the immediate abolition of slavery, the antislavery movement forms the context of most of the correspondence in the collection, but the members of the society were individually and collectively involved in the education of freedmen and in other movements, including women's rights. www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/QR/Rochester.html   (1588 words)

Anti-Slavery and Development and Peace: Debt bondage Slavery was, in a very real sense, the very first international human rights issue — responsible for the first human rights laws and the earliest non governmental organizations. These contemporary forms of slavery are in fact as old as traditional “chattel” slavery and attempts to eradicate them have so far been much less successful than last century’s campaigns against the traditional slave-trade. Following the abolition of slavery, debt bondage was used as a method of colonial labour recruitment for the supply of labour to plantations in Africa, the Caribbean and South-East Asia. www.devp.org /slavery/bondage.html   (7612 words)

Slavery and anti-Slavery Today Although slavery officially ended in Brazil in the latter half of the 19th century, it continues unofficially now in the 21st century. The jurists said that slavery is not wrong on religious grounds, but that outlawing it would be within the government's competence--provided that owners were compensated for the manumission of slaves. Slavery is not the work solely of individuals--the governments of Mauritania and the Sudan are involved. www.ama.africatoday.com /slavery_today_m.htm   (5952 words)

African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy (Part 1) Benjamin Lay, a Quaker who saw slavery as a "notorious sin," addresses this 1737 volume to those who "pretend to lay claim to the pure and holy Christian religion." Although some Quakers held slaves, no religious group was more outspoken against slavery from the seventeenth century until slavery's demise. In this printed version of his 1791 sermon to a local anti-slavery group, he notes the progress toward abolition in the North and predicts that through vigilant efforts slavery would be extinguished in the next fifty years. Jonathan Edwards, D.D. The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade and of the Slavery of Africans. memory.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html   (1430 words)

The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain The trial, which is said to have abolished slavery within England by legal precedent, was centered on the question of Steuart's right to sell Somerset into the West Indies. Lord Mansfield ruled in favor of Somerset on the grounds that slavery "is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." There being no such law in England, "the fl must be discharged." This decision freed an estimated 15,000 Africans then held as slaves in England. They discovered that many people were unaware of the horrors of slavery and that others were not interested in something which happened thousands of miles away. www.victorianweb.org /history/antislavery.html   (1186 words)

Anti-Slavery Society The abolition of slavery became the policy of the Liberal Party (1840-48), the Free-Soil Party (1848-54) and the Republican Party (founded in 1854). After apologizing for his ignorance, and reminding the audience that slavery was a poor school for the human intellect and heart, he proceeded to narrate some of the facts in his own history as a slave, and in the course of his speech gave utterance to many noble thoughts and thrilling reflections. Slavery had stretched its dark wings of death over the land, the Church stood silently by—the priests prophesied falsely, and the people loved to have it so. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAantislavery.htm   (3321 words)

An Anti-Slavery Manual, or, The Wrongs of American Slavery Exposed By the Light of the Bible and of Facts, with A ... In order that the evil of slavery may be fully seen, we have also incorporated some facts, showing the evil effects of slavery upon general intelligence—upon the domestic and social relations of life—upon the efficiency of the Church, and the purity of religion. And slavery is that relation in which unoffending human beings are, without their consent, made and held as property for lifetime. And if slavery and the condition of the serfs were precisely the same, slavery would also be sin, because it is not a natural relation, and is a robbery of the most precious of all boons—liberty. medicolegal.tripod.com /feeasm1851.htm   (16877 words)

Africans in America/Part 4/Eric Foner on David Walker Those who were against slavery tended to be associated with the Colonization Movement -- that is advocating freeing the slaves and then deporting them to Africa or the Caribbean. He utilized the rhetoric of the nation, the rhetoric of liberty, of equality, the Declaration of Independence, and threw it back in the face of white America, charging the nation with being hypocrites, with violating their own professed ideals. So Walker, in a very radical language, uncompromising, not cautious at all, condemned the institution of slavery wholeheartedly, condemned the complicity of the entire institutional structure of the United States in slavery, and called for immediate abolition. www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4i2982.html   (485 words)

Seacoast NH Industrial Era -- The Morning Star of Dover and William Burr Its publishers stuck to their guns despite opposition, even within their own denomination, eventually winning over those who thought then that slavery was a subject outside the realm of religious discussion. Its editor, Samuel Beede, wrote an article called "Slavery and Abolition," in which he stated that, although slavery was evil, the North was as guilty as the South. Burr thought of slavery as a moral and religious issue as well, and he led a concerted campaign against the evil. seacoastnh.com /blackhistory/star.html   (1009 words)

History, Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles (1883), by Rev. Parker Pillsbury, Abolitionist Activist The present generation knows little of the terrible mysteries and meanings of slavery or anti-slavery; the outrages and horrors of the former, or the desperate and deadly encounters with the monster by the latter, long before the cannonade of Fort Sumpter, or the dreadful war chorus of the subsequent rebellion. This whole scene was once supposed as illustration, in the days of slavery, in just such town and house of worship as here described, and not only that town, but the pulpit and religious press of both the hemispheres almost shrieked as with holy horror at what they called so audacious, so diabolical blasphemy. Not only was slavery adultery, as sanctified and committed by the churches, in thus sundering all marriage rights and responsibilities; it was legally and in solemn compact annihilation of human marriage and parentage. medicolegal.tripod.com /pillsburypacts.htm   (16947 words)

PAL:The Anti-Slavery Movement Slavery was not yet the sole subject of his life, but he was determined to fight it the best he could. Following the 1854 passage of the Kansas -Nebraska Act, which provided that the people of the territory were to both on the existence of slavery there, both the north and south tried to pack sympathetic settlers there. "Convinced that the American Nation would be killed if slavery were not, he justified his methods by the holiness of his cause, by his belief that both ends and means came from the Lord God Almighty whose servant he was" (Boyer 3). www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/abolish.html   (2449 words)

BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil unveils anti-slavery plan He says that the country needs tougher laws allowing farms where slavery occurs to be confiscated, as well as the political will to eradicate the practice. In areas of the Amazon, there are frequent stories of landless peasants being lured to remote farms with promises of work only to find themselves caught in a web of debt from which they cannot escape. Brazil was the last country in the Americas to officially abolish slavery in 1888 and it imported the most slaves from Africa. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2842219.stm   (251 words)

Antislavery he original opponents of slavery were deeply religious women and men who believed that slavery was sinful. The Society of Friends, as the group was formally known, was a religious denomination that had arisen during England's civil war of the mid-1600s. Widespread Quaker opposition to slavery arose during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), when many Friends were persecuted for refusing to fight or pay taxes. www.hfac.uh.edu /gl/antisl2.htm   (433 words)

Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830-1870: A Selective Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) As the historiography relating to slavery is vast, including thousands of monographs and journal articles dealing with aspects of the issue, the present bibliography is restricted to primary material dating from the period when slavery was being debated and criticized in public discourse. Represented are newspaper and periodical articles, travel literature and journals to places where slavery was an ongoing practice, treatises, sermons, reports of anti-slavery institutions, published slavery narratives, other published documents and archival materials. Williams, Joseph J. The principles of American slavery [microform] : an interesting and authentic pamphlet giving a full and satisfactory description of the principles of the slave code of the South, with the morals and improvements of the colored people of Canada, of the Elgin Association. www.nlc-bnc.ca /2/22/index-e.html   (3637 words)

John Greenleaf Whittier's Anti-Slavery Ode to New Hampshire Slavery was sometimes clustered with issues of temperance, women's suffrage, state's rights, even the abolition of all government. He worried that, while the South was united in favor of slavery, the North was not of one mind. Most northerners, he said, were still not passionate on the slavery issue, and favored a united country over an emancipated one. www.seacoastnh.com /blackhistory/whittier.html   (1977 words)

Slavery Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Slavery Today is an interactive overview, designed to educate and inspire. Read an FAQ on modern-day slavery and our slave redemption program in Sudan. As a young boy, he was captured in a militia raid on his village in South Sudan. www.iabolish.com /slavery_today.htm   (275 words)

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade In 1830, the Female Society for Birmingham submitted a resolution to the National Conference of the Anti-Slavery Society calling for the organisation to campaign for an immediate end to slavery in the British colonies. In an attempt to persuade the male leadership to change its mind on this issue, the society threatened to withdraw its funding of the organisation. The Anti-Slavery Society was disbanded after the Abolition of Slavery Act was passed in 1833. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REantislavery.htm   (540 words)

The Anti-Slavery Society No-one hears their cries as they are starved or kept locked in cupboards for days on end, or chained up. But it will never change until governments and legislatures around the world, responding to world public opinion outraged by the worst abuses of child labor, shoulder their responsibilities for these children by taking action to suppress slavery in all its insidious forms. As long as the West is silent, the governments of these countries will continue to avert their eyes from the plight of these children. www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /society.htm   (243 words)

Slavery These documents shed light on the history of Jefferson's thoughts on politics, slavery, religion, and other subjects; his decades-long political partnership with James Madison; and his friendships with John and Abigail Adams, William Short, and others. An organization devoted to the abolition of contemporary forms of slavery, including debt bondage, false adoption (of children to work as domestic servants), servitude imposed by serfdom or caste, and domestic slavery. Webpage to the museum of slavery on Curacao, formerly a Dutch sugar colony. www.vancouver.wsu.edu /fac/peabody/slave.htm   (1854 words)

COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS At the same time, the CIW believes that the ultimate solution to modern-day slavery in agribusiness lies on the "demand side" of the US produce market -- the major food-buying corporations that profit from the artificially-low cost of US produce picked by workers in sweatshop and, in the worst cases, slavery conditions. Modern-day slavery is a violation of the 13th Amendment. When the CIW uses the word slavery, we do not mean “slave-like” or “resembling slavery" --- rather, we are referring to conditions that meet the high standard of proof and definition of slavery under US federal laws. www.ciw-online.org /slavery.html   (876 words)

Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition) For example, the charter of Georgia prohibited slavery, and many of its settlers fought a losing battle against allowing it in the colony, Before independence, Quakers, most fl Christians, and other religious groups argued that slavery was incompatible with Christ's teaching. Although the economic center of slavery was in the South, northerners also held slaves, as did African Americans and Native Americans. On January 1, 1794, delegates from the abolition societies of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland met in Philadelphia, a stronghold of the anti-slavery Quaker religion. www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam005.html   (1558 words)

Anti-Slavery Homepage By revitalising the 1807 spirit, we can make the abolition of all forms of slavery, in law and in practice, a priority for each and every government in the world. Not only does slavery need to be eliminated, but the legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including racism and discrimination, must be addressed. Trafficked, beaten, interrogated and sent to a forced labour camp; this is the shocking reality faced by many North Korean women seeking to escape the dire food and economic crisis blighting that country. www.antislavery.org   (479 words)

Conflict of Abolition and Slavery: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition) One was the tree of slavery, planted at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619; the other, planted by the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620, was the tree of liberty. Although he had detractors, Garrison quickly became a noted leader of the anti- slavery movement and helped launch the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833. Abolition Celebration in Washington, D.C. On April 19, 1866, the African-American citizens of Washington, D.C., celebrated the abolition of slavery. www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam007.html   (727 words)

USCWC -- Abolition and Slavery The Civil War, Slavery and the Chesapeake Bay Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery Slavery and the Civil War, as Viewed by the Churches of God www.cwc.lsu.edu /cwc/links/slave.htm   (428 words)

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