abolitionism

Examples of abolitionism in the following topics:

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • Abolitionism, used as a single word, was a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal.

• The Politics of Slavery

  • American abolitionism was accused by many of threatening the harmony between northern and southern states in the Union.
  • Northern teachers suspected of abolitionism were expelled from the South, and abolitionist literature was banned.

• Abolitionists and the American Ideal

  • Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, abolitionism—a movement to end slavery—intensified throughout the United States.
  • While American abolitionism strengthened in the North, support for slavery held strong among white southerners, who profited so greatly from the system of enslaved labor that slavery itself became intertwined with the national economy.

• International Diplomacy

  • No European countries formally acknowledged the Confederacy, preferring Northern grain imports and abolitionism to Southern cotton imports.

• Women and Democracy

  • Many women in the nineteenth century were involved in reform movements, particularly abolitionism.

• The Old South

  • American abolitionism was accused of threatening the harmony of North and South in the Union.
  • American abolitionism began well before the United States was founded as a nation.

• Freedom, Inequality, and Democracy in the Gilded Age

  • African Americans, such as Du Bois and Wells-Barnett, continued the tradition of advocacy, organizing, and journalism which helped spur abolitionism, and also developed new tactics that helped to spur the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

• Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. "Mark Twain"

  • Huckleberry Finn had a distinctly more serious tone than its predecessor, as its main premise is the young Finn's belief in abolitionism, even though most of the adult influences in Finn's life believed he was wrong.

• The Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • However, Brown's vision of abolitionism was radically distinct from the more dominant antislavery sentiments in the North in that he believed that slavery was an unjustifiable state of war conducted by one group of people against another.

• Conclusion: A Maturing Society

  • The reform efforts of the antebellum years, including abolitionism, aimed to perfect the national destiny and redeem the souls of individual Americans.