Links to Writings
by Abolitionists
Presenting Their Viewpoint
on the Sinfulness
and/or Unconstitutionality
of Slavery
in the United States,
And Related Writings
The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial The Wrongful Imprisonment/Speedy Trial Act of 1701 Ralph Sandiford's 1729 Brief Examination of the Practice Benjamin Lay's 1737 Slaveholders Apostates George Whitefield's 1739 Letter James Otis' 1761 Analysis Anti-slavery Lawsuit Court Decision 22 June 1772 Somerset v Stewart Patrick Henry's 18 Jan 1773 Letter Thomas Paine's 8 March 1775 “African Slavery In America” S. G. Tucker's 1795 Dissertation on Slavery Bishop Samuel Horsley's 24 June 1806 Anti-Slavery Speech Rev. John Rankin's 1823 Letters on American Slavery David Walker's 28 September 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World Rev. George Bourne's 1834 Picture of Slavery in the United States of America Rev. Beriah Green's 17 July 1836 Things for Northern Men to Do Benjamin Lundy's 1837 War in Texas Rev. Theodore Weld's 1837 The Bible Against Slavery Salmon P. Chase's Nov 1837 Anti-Slavery Legal Brief Gerrit Smith's 21 March 1839 Letter to Hon. Henry Clay Rev. Theodore Weld's 4 May 1839 Slavery Conditions Rev. Beriah Green's 1839 Chattel Principle James Birney's 1840 The American Churches: The Bulwarks of American Slavery Prof. Rev. Charles G. Finney, "Lecture XXXIV" Section VII, Paragraphs 2-4 and Remarks, paras 2, 5, 8, and 11 (Oberlin, 9 June 1841) George W. F. Mellen's 1841 Unconstitutionality of Slavery Lewis Tappan's 1843 Address to the Non-slaveholders of the South Rev. Henry Highland Garnet's 16 August 1843 Address to the Slaves Rev. Stephen Foster's July 1843 Brotherhood of Thieves Frederick Douglass's 28 April 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Alvan Stewart's 21-22 May 1845 Legal Speech For Freeing Slaves Charles Sumner's 4 July 1845 Lecture Against Pro-Slavery War Lysander Spooner's 1845 Unconstitutionality of Slavery Rev. Wm. Patton's August 1846 Pro-slavery Interpretations of the Bible: Productive of Infidelity Sen. Thomas Corwin's 11 Feb 1847 Anti-War for Slavery Rev. Parker Pillsbury's Nov 1847 Church Forlorn Hope Rep. Abraham Lincoln's 12 Jan 1848 Anti-War for Slavery Rev. Silas McKeen's 1 March 1848 Disfellowshipping Slavers Gerrit Smith's 18 March 1848 Letter to the Liberty Party of New Hampshire Rep. Horace Mann's 23 Feb 1849 Slavery and the Slave-Trade . . . . Joel Tiffany's 1849 Unconstitutionality of Slavery Rev. John G. Fee's 1849 Non-Fellowship With Slaveholders The Duty of Christians Lewis Tappan's 1 Nov 1850 The Fugitive Slave Bill: Its History and Unconstitutionality Rev. John G. Fee's 1851 Sinfulness of Slavery Rev. John G. Fee's 1851 Anti-Slavery Manual Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr.'s 3 April 1851 Fugitive Slave Law Speech Rev. Wm. Goodell's 1852 Slavery and Anti-Slavery Harriet B. Stowe's 1853 History of Slavery aka Key Abraham Lincoln's 16 October 1854 Peoria Speech Edward C. Rogers' 1855 Slavery Illegality in All Ages and Nations William I. Bowditch's 1855 White Slavery in the United States William E. Whiting, et al.'s June 1855 Radical Abolitionist Convention Richard Hildreth's 1856 Atrocious Judges Rev. George Cheever's June 1856 Pulpit Duty on Slavery Rev. George Cheever's 30 Oct 1856 Against Extension of Slavery Rev. George Cheever's 1857 God Against Slavery Rev. George Cheever's May 1858 Fire and Hammer Against Slavery Frederick Douglass' March 1860 Unconstitutionality of Slavery Sen. Charles Sumner's 4 June 1860 Barbarism of Slavery Rep. Charles H. Van Wyck's 16 June 1860 Despotism of Slavery Henry Wilson's 1877 History of Slavepower “Frederick Douglass' Escape from Slavery” 23 Century Illust'd Mag 125-131 (Nov 1881) Rev. Parker Pillsbury's 1883 History Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles "I'm A Good Old Rebel" A Modern View: "Was the American Founding Unjust? The Case of Slavery." DWB: (Modern Slavery) David W. Padrusch, Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War (A & E, 2006) Anti-slavery Homepage Tobacco Issues Homepage Pertinent Books Resource Site |
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