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Week 9: Abolitionism and the end of slavery

Gobbets
  • The Liberator
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Pro-slavery defence
    Questions

    What was the impact of northern Abolitionism on southern slaves and slaveholders? How coherent was proslavery ideology? Why were slaves sometimes emancipated from slavery? What was life like for free blacks in the south?

    Core Reading
    E-Resources
    Further Reading
    • McMannus, Edgar, Black bondage in the North
    • Roediger, David, ed., The meaning of slavery in the North
    • Tise, Larry, Proslavery
    • Jenkins, William, Pro-slavery thought in the Old South (esp chs 1 & 2)
    • McKittrick, Eric, Slavery defended, the views of the Old South
    • Mathews, D G, Slavery and Methodism (pt 2)
    • Kraditor, Aileen, Means and ends in American abolitionism
    • Sorin, G, New York Abolitionists
    • Buckmaster, Henrietta, Let my people go ch 1-7
    • Purry, Lewis [ed], Anti-slavery reconsidered - new perspectives on the abolitionists
    • Fitter, Louis, The crusade against slavery
    • Franklin, John, The militant South, 1800-1861
    • Daley, John, When slavery was called freedom
    • Shore, Laurence, Southern capitalists: the ideological leadership of an elite, 1832-1885
    • Soderlund, Jean, Quakers and slavery
    • Berlin, Ira, Slaves without masters (1 copy SRC)
    • Curry, Leonard, The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850: The Shadow of a Dream
    • Rose, Willie Slavery and freedom, (ch 6)
    • Ransom, Roger, Conflict and compromise ( ch5-7)
    • Harding, Vincent, There is a River, the black struggle for freedom in America
    • Fehrenbacher, Don, The slaveholding republic: An account of the US government's relations to slavery
    • Cooper, William, Liberty and slavery: Southern politics to 1860
    • Zilversmit, Arthur, The First emancipation, the abolition of slavery in the North