Reactions to Slavery
Reactions to Slavery
Reactions to Slavery Overview...154Antislavery Arguments...155
Antislavery Literature...162
Proslavery Arguments...175
Proslavery Literature: "Anti-Tom Novels"...182
African American Literature...187
Slave Narratives...195
Outsiders' Views of Slavery...204
Uncle Remus...219
Journalism...221
American Colonization Society...229
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Antislavery , Opposition to slavery in British North America began in the late seventeenth century but was limited mostly to a minority of Quakers and a few Purita… Theodore Dwight Weld , Hampton, Connecticut
Died February 3, 1895
Boston, Massachusetts
Religious leader and abolitionist
Author of the influential book
American Slavery as… Abolitionists , In colonial North America, the nonviolent Society of Friends stood almost alone in condemning slavery, which has led to the common misperception that… Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton , Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–1845). Anti-slavery campaigner and quaker philanthropist, Buxton married Hannah Gurney (sister of Elizabeth Fry). In 1808… Thomas Clarkson , Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846). Anti-slavery campaigner. Born in Wisbech (Cambs.), son of a schoolmaster, Clarkson was educated at St Paul's School and… Frederick Douglass , Born February 1818?
Tolbert County, Maryland
Washington, D.C.
Abolitionist, writer, and speaker
Escaped from slavery to become one of the most
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