Much of the accounting of this time involves economic and legislative history, conditions of the enslaved, and an accounting of who went where. However, it is the abolition movement that has truly sparked the most debate amongst both its contemporaries as well as with historians throughout the past several centuries. It is these movements in which the rise of autonomy and the notion of human rights developed. In understanding this time period, many historians have studied unusual sources for clues. This practice remains little analyzed as a whole. However, the use of atypical sources can typically be found in the historian’s methodology, referenced within the arguments, or listed in the
Much of the accounting of this time involves economic and legislative history, conditions of the enslaved, and an accounting of who went where. However, it is the abolition movement that has truly sparked the most debate amongst both its contemporaries as well as with historians throughout the past several centuries. It is these movements in which the rise of autonomy and the notion of human rights developed. In understanding this time period, many historians have studied unusual sources for clues. This practice remains little analyzed as a whole. However, the use of atypical sources can typically be found in the historian’s methodology, referenced within the arguments, or listed in the