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).

Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle

The Department of History and Anthropology would like to announce a new blog as part of our Turning Points in History Series.  We hosted two lectures in 2012-13 based on our theme--one on Presidents Eisenhower and Truman by Dr. Jon Taylor and a second on the Battle of Antietam by Dr. Jessica Cannon.  We plan to host several more events in the coming months, so please check back often for updates.

Over the next two years the department is also participating in the 'Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle' Grant sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.  Our programming includes video performances of The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, The Loving Story, and Freedom Riders.  Following each video we will have a panel of scholars to discuss historical themes with the audience.  Two guest speakers, Dr. Keona Ervin, Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, and Dr. Robert E. Weems, William W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University, will also offer lectures at UCM as part of the grant programming in April and November of 2014.  Dr. Delia Gillis, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at UCM, is directing the grant. Additional information will be posted in the coming weeks, including a schedule and brief summary of each event.