Portal:Abolitionism
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Index of works about abolitionist movement, the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals.
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Works
- Philemon by Paul of Tarsus (apostle)
- Memorial Against Slaveholding, 1688 by Francis Daniel Pastorius et. al.
- An exhortation & caution to Friends concerning buying or keeping of Negroes, 1693 by George Keith
- The Selling of Joseph, 1700 by Samuel Sewall
- All Slave-keepers that keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates, 1737 by Benjamin Lay
- A caution and warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes in the British Dominions, 1766 by Anthony Benezet
- A Dissuasion to Great-Britain and the Colonies, from the Slave Trade to Africa, 1772 by James Swan
- Patrick Henry letter to Robert Pleasants 1773 by Patrick Henry
- African Slavery in America, 1775 by Thomas Paine
- "Original Rough Draught" of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
- Slavery, a poem, 1788 by Hannah More
- Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade, 1788 by John Newton
- The Speech of William Wilberforce,... on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1789 by William Wilberforce
- An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies, 1823 by William Wilberforce
- Memoir on Slavery!, 1826 by José Bonifácio (trad. William Walton)
- Gen. Jackson's Negro Speculations, and his Traffic in Human Flesh, Examined and Established by Positive Proof, 1828 by Andrew Erwin
- An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, 1833 by Lydia Maria Child
- Slavery a Positive Good, 1837 by John C. Calhoun
- An essay upon the constitutional rights as to slave property, 1840 by Conway Robinson
- Paradise (to be) Regained, 1843 by Henry David Thoreau
- A History of Slavery and its Abolition, 1844 by Esther Copley (transcription project)
- Herald of Freedom, 1844 by Henry David Thoreau
- Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum, 1845 by Henry David Thoreau
- Thomas Carlyle and His Works, 1847 by Henry David Thoreau
- Civil Disobedience, 1849 by Henry David Thoreau
- Freedom National; Slavery Sectional, 1852 by Charles Sumner
- Slavery in Massachusetts, 1854 by Henry David Thoreau
- The Landmark of Freedom, 1854 by Charles Sumner
- A Plea for Captain John Brown, 1859 by Henry David Thoreau
- The Last Days of John Brown, 1860 by Henry David Thoreau
- The Barbarism of Slavery, 1860 speech by Charles Sumner
- Life without Principle, 1863 by Henry David Thoreau
- Prayers, 1866 by Henry David Thoreau
- Pity the Poor Africans, 1870 by William Cowper
Texts written by slaves and former slaves
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, (1794)
- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself, (1798) by Venture Smith
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) by Nat Turner
- Three Years in Europe, 1852 by William Wells Brown
- Twelve Years a Slave, (1853) by Solomon Northup
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, (1861) by Linda Brent
- The works of Frederick Douglass
- The works of Booker T. Washington
Legislation, petitions etc.
See also
- Portal:Slavery
- Abolitionists as authors