Freedom Now!: The Story of the AbolitionistsDiscusses the abolition movement, focusing on prominent personalities involved in the cause. |
Contents
Negroes for Sale | 1 |
Early Opponents of Slavery | 9 |
Rebellions and Reactions | 17 |
Copyright | |
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abolish slavery abolition abolitionists accepted Adams American Anti-Slavery Society Angelina anti antislavery antislavery cause Arthur Tappan attacks audience battle became Beecher began Boston Burns called church Civil Colonization Congress Constitution convention Elijah Lovejoy emancipation England escape fight former slaves Frederick Douglass free blacks freed freedom friends Fugitive Slave Law gave Grimké Harriet Tubman Henry Higginson higher law John Brown John Greenleaf Whittier joined Kansas later leaders lecture Lewis Tappan Liberator Liberty Lincoln lived Lundy Massachusetts master meeting newspaper North Northerners Ohio opposed slavery organized pamphlet party petitions political President proslavery Quaker radical rebellion reform religious revolt Sarah Senate sisters slave trade slaveholders slavery Slavery Society South Southern spoke struggle Sumner territories Theodore Weld tion tionists took tried turned Underground Railroad Vesey Vigilance Committee violence Virginia vote Wendell Phillips white abolitionists Whittier William Lloyd Garrison woman women women's rights wrote York young