Abolitionists Event Resources

We are looking forward to our panel discussion tomorrow and we hope to see you there.  And if you are visiting this site after attending the event, thank you for coming!

To further the discussion, we would like to post some additional resources for our audience and students.

Here is a basic overview of the full three-episode series produced by PBS:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/abolitionists-introduction/

In addition, you can read the inspiring words of Garrison, Douglass, and many of the other participants for yourself at these websites:

"I Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America (primary sources and background information presented by Cornell University):

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/abolitionists.htm

Documenting the American South (a collection of antebellum and Civil Rights resources hosted by the University of North Carolina:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html

And the Expansion and Reform (1800-1860) category of online resources at the Gilder Lehrman Institute:

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collections/groupings/expansion-reform-1800-1860

You may also want to check out these books to read more about this era of history:

Cain Hope Felder, ed., The Original African Heritage Study Bible (James C. Winston Pub. Company, Nashville, TN, 1993).
 
Henry Mayer, All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (St. Martin's Press, 1998).

W. Caleb McDaniel, The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform (Louisiana State University Press, 2013).

Deidre Mullane, ed., Crossing the Danger Water- 300 years of African-American Writing (Doubleday, 1993).

Richard S. Newman, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

Merrill D. Peterson, John Brown: The Legend Revisited (University of Virginia Press, 2002).

Edward Bartlett Rugemer, The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2009).

Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade- the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 (Simon & Schuster, 1997.

John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860, Revised edition (Hill and Wang, 1997).