Abolitionism

United States, 1837-1865 (Elbert B. Smith), George Shepperson of the University of Edinburgh wrote, ‘it is regrettable, however, that, in a book which is forced to deal with the American anti-slavery movement, there should be so very little on black abolitionism. Is not Frederick Douglass, that outstanding black American, worth a mention in a book of this kind?’ Frederick Douglass - born a slave on a Maryland Plantation, sent to Baltimore to work as a servant and as a laborer in the shipyard,…

Dissimilarities between the North & South Back in 1850-1860 there wasn’t much love within our country. One half of our country had different views than the other half. To be more specific, the North and South had differences from each other. The North was the more industrialized side with more abundant natural resources, rather than the South being the more agriculture based side. These sides had many dissimilarities but they mostly differ because of their social, economic, and political…

abolishing slavery. These events led to the Emancipation Proclamation which abolished slavery in the Confederacy. Douglass was thrilled to hear and Lincoln gained Douglass’ full support. The events during the Civil War shows a combination of Radical Abolitionism and Conservative Republicanism as the Emancipation Proclamation led to the instant abolition of slavery while the Republicans enforced laws that led to the Emancipation…

against the economic arguments that the monolithic nature of the slave economy was the driving force of the Civil War, since her evaluation of Confederate soldiers defines a different moral pathology: “Georgia solder A.H. Mitchell, for one, linked abolitionism in the north to other moral pathologies like “spiritualism and free love” (Manning 35). In this context, Mitchell is defining the moral conflict between the “spiritualism” of Quaker and evangelical ideology, which sought to spread the…

Antebellum and Postbellum America was very much shaped and influenced by the premiere discourse of thought: abolitionism versus pro-slavery. While the country was divided into a sectional debate over slavery, two of the most influential periodicals were large at work: William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator and James DeBow’s DeBow’s Review. A voice for the South and pro-slavery, DeBow served as an advocate for the South and it’s independence from the North and abolitionist ways of thought. While…

The first section assigned to the reading is composed of the autobiographical portion, where Robert Wedderburn retells the story of his childhood and life as a freedman with an enslaved family. Some of the brutalities include his father making his mother “the object of his brutal lust then insulted, abused, and abandoned” (45). This is the basic reason he detests his father. He describes his father as a Christian man from Scotland who was a slaveowner, and then he follows this with the tale of…

writing. In addition, several of the abolitionists gave speeches on what they believed in. Furthermore, those speeches often came from people who experienced slavery personally, and knew how it felt to have no rights whatsoever. At the core of abolitionism lies several important individuals who dedication to abolishing slavery would benefit generations to come. Each famous abolitionist dedicated their beliefs to one specific group, whether through writing or speeches. For literature,…

Throughout the sixth chapter of The American Political Tradition, Richard Hoftstader the author, refers to Wendell Phillips’ role in history as an agitator. For Wendell Phillips the role of an agitator was a profession, very different from that of a politician, throughout his course he could never be satisfied to the fullest. Hoftstader believes that Phillips’ role as an agitator “was not to make laws or determine policy, but to influence the public mind in the interest of same large social…

When Abraham Lincoln was elected into office for the first time in 1860, abolitionism was spreading widely around the Northern States, while many white southerners greatly opposed the movement. In Lerone Bennett Jr.’s article titled Lincoln, a White Supremacist (1968), Bennett presented the main idea that Abraham Lincoln was not the Great Emancipator that the world thought he was, but in fact, a white supremacist. The main purpose of the article was to inform the reader of evidence that proved…

of the most famous African-American abolitionist and women’s right activist, Sojourner Truth was born in 1797. Sojourner Truth is a self- given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree (biography.com). Truth is remembered for her support to abolitionism, the freedmen and women’s rights (history.com). Sojourner Truth was born into slavery, but she emerged as one of the most notable personalities of the nineteenth century. This essay is going to discuss her struggles and contributions towards…