Browsing by Subject "Slavery"

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    400 years of black giving: From the days of slavery to the 2019 Morehouse graduation
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2019-08-22) Freeman, Tyrone McKinley; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    Anti-slavery movement, Britain
    (Blackwell Publishing, 2009-04-20) Kelly, Jason M.
    The abolition of slavery in Britain and its Atlantic empire was a protracted process that took centuries to accomplish. While historians often focus on one element of the anti-slavery movement – the abolition campaigns of the late eighteenth century – anti-slavery resistance was, in fact, a much more complex phenomenon that ranged from slave resistance to evangelical pressure to mass boycotts and petitioning. The diversity of anti-slavery resistance in the early modern period necessitates that scholars understand the end of slavery in Britain as the accomplishment of many grassroots movements rather than that of a single, monolithic organization of middling reformers. The abolition of slavery in the British Atlantic took place in three phases. The first phase, lasting roughly from the seventeenth century to the 1770s, saw the expansion of the British slave trade and the earliest, decentralized anti-slavery resistance. The second phase, from the 1770s to 1807, witnessed the rise of massive British support for the abolition of the slave trade, which many leaders believed was the first step in bringing an end to the institution of slavery. The third phase, between 1808 and 1838, brought the legal emancipation of slaves in the British Atlantic world.
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    Autographs for Freedom and Reaching a New Abolitionist Audience
    (University of Chicago Press, 2017-01-01) McKivigan, John R.; Pattillo, Rebecca A.; History, School of Liberal Arts
    Scholars correctly appreciate Frederick Douglass’s novella The Heroic Slave (1853) as an important early work of African American literature and as a significant indicator of its author’s endorsement of violent tactics to end slavery in the United States.1 This essay will literally step back farther from the text of Douglass’s only fictional work, and examine The Heroic Slave as a component of a larger project—the gift book Autographs for Freedom—edited by Douglass and his closest ally in the early 1850s, British abolitionist Julia Griffiths. The thirty-nine pieces of short fiction, poetry, essays, and correspondence in the 263-page anthology were envisioned as tools to construct a wider and politically more potent antislavery alliance than any in which the two abolitionists had previously participated. In the diverse composition of its collection of authors and antislavery themes, Autographs for Freedom was both a cultural and political tool designed by Douglass and Griffiths to help assemble a more powerful antislavery coalition from the volume’s reading audience.
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    Emancipation in Indiana
    (2012-09-27) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-
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    Sins of the Founding Fathers: The perils of judging past heroes by today’s standards
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2015-08-24) Gunderman, Richard; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine