Antislavery Movement in the United States

Civil Liberties and the Antislavery Controversy

Emancipation of Slavery

See emancipation and the other entries on the antislavery in this encyclopedia.

Resources

Notes

Further Reading

Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. 5th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Beckles, Hilary, and Verene Shepherd, eds. Caribbean Freedom: Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present. Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner, 1996.

Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848. London: Verso Press, 1988.

Bolt, Christine, and Seymour Drescher, eds. Anti-Slavery, Religion, and Reform: Essays in Memory of Roger Anstey. Hamden, CT: Archon Press, 1980.

Carretta, Vincent, ed. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996.

Conforti, Joseph A. Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings.

Conrad, Robert. The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850–1888. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Corwin, Arthur F. Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817–1886. Austin: University of Texas, 1967.

Cover, Robert M. Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.

Davis, David Brion. ‘‘The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought.’’ Mississippi Valley Historical Review 49 (September 1962): 209–230.

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Drescher, Seymour. Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilisation in Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Drescher, Seymour . The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Emmer, Pieter. The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580–1880. Trade, Slavery and Emancipation. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1998.

Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery. Completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Finkelman, Paul. An Imperfect Union. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Finley, Moses I. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. Expanded edition edited by Brent D. Shaw. Princeton, N.J., Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998.

Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1961.

Genovese, Eugene. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Grover, Kathryn. The Fugitive’s Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.

Heuman, Gad, ed. Out of the House of Bondage. Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World. London: Frank Cass, 1986.

Jacobs, Donald M., ed. Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Jennings, Lawrence C. French Anti-Slavery. The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802–1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Kachun, Mitch. Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2003.

Klingberg, Frank J. The Anti-Slavery Movement in England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1926.

Lal, K.S. Muslim Slave System in Medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1994.

Lombardi, John. The Decline and Abolition of Negro Slavery in Venezuela. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1971.

Loveland, Anne C. ‘‘Evangelicalism and Immediate Emancipation in American Antislavery Thought.’’ Journal of Southern History 32 (1966): 172–188.

McInerney, Daniel J. The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and Republican Thought. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

McPherson, James. The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Mason, John. Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999.

Midgley, Clare. Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780–1870. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Miers, Suzanne, and Richard Roberts, eds. The End of Slavery in Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Miller, William Lee. Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Minkema, Kenneth. ‘‘Jonathan Edwards’s Defense of Slavery.’’ Massachusetts Historical Review 4 (2002): 23–59.

Moon, David. The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia 1762–1907. Longman: Harlow and London, 2001.

Morton, Fred. Children of Ham: Freed Slaves and Fugitive Slaves on the Kenya Coast, 1873

to 1907. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1990.

Nash, Gary B. Race and Revolution. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1990.