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
- Rugemer, Edward B. 'The Southern Response to British Abolitionism: The Maturation of Proslavery Apologetics,' Journal of Southern History, 70, 2 (2004), pp. 221-48.
- Faust, Drew Gilpin, 'Introduction: The Proslavery Argument in History', in: Faust, Drew Gilpin (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860, pp. 1-20
E-Resources
- Olwell, Robert, 'Becoming free: manumission and the genesis of a free black community in South Carolina, 1740-1790' S&A, 17 (1996), 1-19
- Camp, Stephanie, Closer to Freedom, chp. 4.
- Donald, David, 'The proslavery argument reconsidered' JSH 37 (1971) 3-18
- Hickin, Patricia, 'Gentle Agitator: Samuel Janney and the antislavery movement in Virginia' JSH 37 (1971) 59-110
- Allen, Jeffrey, 'Were Southern white critics of slavery racists' JSH 44 (1978) 169-190
- Greenberg, D, 'Revolutionary ideology and the proslavery argument' JSH 42 (1976) 365-384
- Carey, Anthony, 'Too Southern to be Americans: proslavery politics and the future of the know-nothing party in Georgia 1854-1856' CWH 41 (1995) 22-40
- Lacy Ford "Reconfiguring the Old South: "Solving" the Problem of Slavery, 1787–1838" JAH (2008)
- McKivigan, John, 'James Redpath, John Brown and abolitionist advocacy of slave insurrection' CWH 37 (1991) 293-313
- Lachance, Paul, 'The limits of privilege: where free persons of colour stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum New Orleans' S&A 17 (1996) 65-84
- Mintz, Steven, 'Models of Emancipation during the age of Revolution' S&A 17.2 (1996), 1-21
- Hancock, Harold, 'Not quite men: the free Negroes in Delaware in the 1830s' CWH 17 (1971) 320-331
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Budros, Art. 'Social Shocks and Slave Social Mobility: Manumission in Brunswick County, Virginia, 1782-1862' American Journal of Sociology, 110, 3 (2004), pp. 539-79
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