Abolitionist Movement

Christopher Cameron, PhD, is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

• Introduction,SLAVERY AND RACIAL THOUGHT IN COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICAQuakers and Abolitionism,Petition of Germantown Quakers1688Puritan Protests,Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph1700Race and the Enlightenment,David Hume, "Of National Characters"1758The Colonial Crisis and Abolitionism,James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved1764Organized Black Abolitionism,Petition of Massachusetts Blacks to the General Court1773African and Indian Alliances,Phillis Wheatley, "Letter to Samson Occom"1774Black Masons Protest Slavery,Petition of Prince Hall to the General Court1777Antislavery Poetry,Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of General Wooster"1778"No Taxation without Representation," Petition of John and Paul Cuffe to the General Court1780"A Suspicion Only," Thomas Jefferson, Excerpt from Notes on the State of Virginia1785Slavery and the Constitution,Gouverneur Morris, "Constitutional Convention Speech"1787Atlantic Crossings,Josiah Wedgwood, "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"1787ABOLITIONISM AND PROSLAVERY THOUGHT IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICASlavery and Power,Thomas Ruffin Opinion in State v. Mann, North Carolina Supreme Court1829Early Black Nationalism,David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World1829"I Will Be Heard," William Lloyd Garrison, "To the Public"1831Female Prophets of Abolition,Maria Stewart, "Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston"1833Southern Abolitionists,Angelina Grimké, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South1836Antislavery and Women's Rights,Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?"1837Slave Narratives,Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States1837"Republicanism a Sham," Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"1852Foundation of the Confederacy,Alexander Stephens, "Cornerstone Speech"1861Finally Free,Emancipation Proclamation1863The Meaning of the War,Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address1865Timeline,Further Reading,Index,About the Author,