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“Emancipation!”
From: The Language of the Civil War

1 : THE YEARS OF SLAVERY (1818–1837)
From: Frederick Douglass

Amistad: Slavery’s Northern Dred Scott Decision
From: Famous American Crimes and Trials

The Shadrach Courtroom Rescue: Abolitionists Free Fugitive Slave
From: Famous American Crimes and Trials

Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the North
From: History of Black Americans

The Ordeal of Harpers Ferry and the Trial of John Brown: Madman or Martyr?
From: Famous American Crimes and Trials

Antislavery and Proslavery in the Young Republic
From: History of Black Americans

2 : THE PREWAR YEARS OF FREEDOM (1838–1861)
From: Frederick Douglass

28.: Excerpt from The Liberator (1831)
From: 100 Key Documents in American Democracy

3 : THE WAR YEARS (1861–1865)
From: Frederick Douglass

30.: Angelina Grimké, Excerpt from “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex’ (1837)
From: 100 Key Documents in American Democracy

4 : The Postwar Years (1865–1895)
From: Frederick Douglass

5 : RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES
From: Frederick Douglass

6 : SPEECHES
From: Frederick Douglass

Abolition of Slavery
From: Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era [Two Volumes]

Abolition of Slavery, British
From: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture

Abolition of Slavery, European
From: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture

Abolition of Slavery, French
From: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture

Abolition of Slavery, Portuguese
From: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture

Abolition of Slavery, Russian
From: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture

Abolition of Slavery, Spanish
From: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture

ABOLITIONISM
From: Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery

Abolitionist Literature
From: Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature, Volume 1, A-L

ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
From: Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties [Three Volumes]

Abolitionist Movement
From: Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States

Abolitionist Movement (c. 1820–1865).
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature

ABOLITIONIST PROPAGANDA
From: Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda

Abolitionists
From: Affirmative Action

Abolitionists
From: Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era [Two Volumes]

American Antislavery Society
From: The Language of the Civil War

AMERICAN REVOLUTION, SLAVERY AND THE
From: Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery

ANTI-SLAVERY OPINIONS Before 1800.
From: Anti-Slavery Opinions Before the Year1800

Bibliographical Essay
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

Black Conventions
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights

Brown, John (1800–1859)
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature

CHAPTER 1 : Chains
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

CHAPTER 1: Historical Overview
From: The Abolitionist Movement

CHAPTER 10 : The Carpetbag
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

CHAPTER 11 : Redemptions
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

Chapter 2: Johnson’s Presidential Reconstruction Plan, 1865–66
From: The Reconstruction Era

CHAPTER 2 : Stars, Stripes, and Strange Bedfellows
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

CHAPTER 3: “Justice Is in One Scale, and Self-Preservation in the Other”: Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the New Nation
From: The Abolitionist Movement

CHAPTER 3 : There Were Secrets in Those Eyes of His
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

CHAPTER 4: “Though the Heavens Should Fall”: Abolitionism Takes Shape-The 1830s
From: The Abolitionist Movement

CHAPTER 4 : Deliver Me
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

CHAPTER 5: “Contrary to the Laws of God and the Rights of Man”: Politics versus Spirituality—The 1840s
From: The Abolitionist Movement

CHAPTER 5 : Pale Horses and Crimson Creeks
From: The Hanging of Old Brown

CHAPTER 5: The Struggle toEnd the Atlantic Slave Trade
From: The Atlantic Slave Trade

CHAPTER 6: “The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake”: From Politics and Violence to Freedom—The 1850s–1860s
From: The Abolitionist Movement

CHAPTER 6 : Tea Room Conspiracies
From: The Hanging of Old Brown