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Antislavery Abolitionists activist group working to free slaves. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 1] edict issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves (1863). [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 869] Abolitionist political party before Civil War. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 3]
antislavery guerrillas fighting on Union side in Civil War. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 256] poem written to celebrate emancipation of slaves. [Am. Lit.: “Laus Deo!” in Hart, 460] William Lloyd Garrison’s virulently Abolitionist newspaper. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 142] (1809–1865) sixteenth U.S. president; issued Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 286–287] newspaper supporting emancipation founded by Frederick Douglass. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 607] vows to devote self to freeing slaves. [Am. Lit.: Uncle Tom’s Cabin] (1811–1896) author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, influential Abolitionist novel. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 481] highly effective, sentimental Abolitionist novel. [Am. Lit.: Jameson, 513] system which helped slaves to escape to the North. [Am. Hist.: EB, X: 255] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Describing "the complex relationship between Stowe's novel and the many Afro-American antislavery texts published in the late 1840s and early 1850s," Robert B. Deeply committed to the antislavery cause, the sixteenth president was, as Striner persuasively argues, "a fervent idealist" and "an artist in the Machiavellian uses of power. Maxwell examines the disruptive impact of the antislavery controversy on the ABCFM. |
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