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Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
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Description: The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests--and central themes--of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement--whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas--has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed.
This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on th United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition provides definitive coverage of one of the most significant experiences in human history. It features primary source documents, a map of the transatlantic slave trade, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and an index in each volume, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.
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Contributors
Preface
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A-Z Entries
Abdy, Edward Strutt; Ableman v. Booth (1859); Abolition of Slavery Act (1833); Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807); Abolitionist Confederation; Adams, John Quincy; Adams, William Edwin; African Institution; African Squadron; Alexander, George William; Aliened American, The ; Allen, Richard (African American bishop); Allen, Richard (Irish reformer); Allen, Stafford; Allen, William G.; Alvord, John Watson; Amendments, Reconstruction; American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; American Anti-Slavery Society; American Colonization Society; American Missionary Association; American Revolution (1775-1781); American Tract Society; Amistad Case (1841); Anabaptists; Anderson, Osborne Perry; Antelope Case (1825); Anthony, Susan B.; Anti-Abolition Riots; Anti-Slavery Advocate; Anti-Slavery Bugle ; Anti-Slavery International;
Anti-Slavery Reporter ; Apprenticeship and Emancipation; Arango y Parreno, Francisco de; Artigas, Jose Gervasio; Ashmun Institute; Assing, Ottilie
Backhouse, Jonathan, Jr.; Ball, Charles; Barbados Revolt (1816); Beattie, James; Beecher, Henry Ward; Beecher's Bibles; Behn, Aphra; Benezet, Anthony; Berbice Slave Revolt (1763); Betances y Alacan, Ramon Emeterio; Bevan, William; Bibb, Henry; Birkbeck, Morris; Birney, James Gillespie; Blackstone, William; Blair, William Thomas; Blanchard, Jonathan; Bloomer, Amelia Jenks; Bogle, Paul; Bolivar, Simon; Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll; Brazil, Abolition in; Brazil, Emancipation in; Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society; British Emancipator, The ; British West Indies, Abolition in the; Brown, Henry "Box"; Brown, John; Brown, William Wells; Bruce, Henry Clay; Buffum, Arnold; Burleigh, Charles Calistus; Butler, Benjamin Franklin; Buxton, Thomas Fowell
Cadbury, Richard Tapper; Caesar, John; Canada; Candler, John; Castlereagh, Lord; Castro Alves, Antonio de; Chace, Elizabeth Buffum; Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret; Channing, William Ellery; Chapman, Maria Weston; Chase, Salmon P.; Child, David Lee; Child, Lydia Maria Francis; Church Missionary Society; Cinque, Joseph; Civil Rights Act (1866); Civil War, American (1861-1865); Clarke, Lewis G.; Clarkson, John; Clarkson, Thomas; Clay, Cassius Marcellus; Coffin, Levi; Coles, Edward; Colored American, The; Commonwealth v. Aves (1836); Commonwealth v. Jennison (1783); Compensated Emancipation; Concert of Europe; Condorcet, Marquis de; Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862); Congress of Vienna (1814-1815); Conselheiro, Ant(nio; Cornish, Samuel E.; Crandall, Prudence; Creole Case (1841); Crowther, Samuel Ajayi; Crummell, Alexander; Cuba, Abolition in;
Cuba, Emancipation in; Cuffe, Paul; Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah; Curacao Slave Revolt (1795)
Danish West Indies, Abolition in the; Danish West Indies, Emancipation in the; Davis, Paulina Wright; Dawes, William; Day, Thomas; Day, William Howard; De Gouges, Marie Olympe; Declaration of Independence (1776); Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789); Delany, Martin Robison; Demerara Revolt (1823); Dillwyn, William; Dolben's Act (1788); Douglass, Frederick; Douglass, Sarah Mapps; Downing, George Thomas; Drayton, Daniel; Dred Scott Case (1857); Du Bois, W.E.B.; Dunmore's Emancipation Decree (1775); Dutch West Indies, Abolition in the; Dutch West Indies,
Emancipation in the; Education of Former Slaves; Emancipation Proclamation (1863); Enlightenment; Equiano, Olaudah; Estlin, John Bishop
Fairbanks, Calvin; Federal Writers' Project, Slave Narrative Collection; Fedric, Frances; Fee, John Gregg; Finney, Charles Grandison; Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot; Foreign Slave Trade Act (1806); Forten, James, Sr.; "Forty Acres and a Mule"; Foster, Abigail Kelley; Foster, Stephen Symonds; Fox, Charles James; Fox, George; Free Enquirer, The ; Free Soil Party; Free Soil Pioneer ; Freedmen's Aid Societies; Freedmen's Bureau; Freedom Celebrations, International; Freedom Celebrations, U.S.; Fremont, John Charles; Fremont's Emancipation Decree (1861); French Emancipation Declaration (1794); French West Indies, Abolition and Emancipation in the; Fugitive Slave Act of 1793; Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; Fugitive Slaves
Gag Resolution; Gage, Frances Dana; Gama, Luis; Garner, Margaret; Garnet, Henry Highland; Garrett, Thomas; Garrison, William Lloyd; Gatch, Philip; Gay, Sydney Howard; German Coast Rebellion (1811); Germantown Protest (1688); Gibbons, Abigail Hopper; Gibbons, James Sloan; Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar; Giddings, Joshua Reed; Gilbert, Ann Taylor; Gordon, George William; Gradualism; Grandy, Moses; Great Awakening; Great Postal Campaign; Greeley, Horace; Gregoire, Abbe Henri; Griffing, Josephine; Grimke, Angelina Emily; Grimke, Charlotte Forten; Grimke, Sarah Moore; Grinnell, Josiah B.; Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw; Grosvenor, Cyrus Pitt; Guerrero, Vicente
Habsburg Emancipation Decree (1781); Haitian Revolution (1791-1804); Hamilton, William; Hargrave, Francis; Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins; Harpers Ferry Raid (1859); Haughton, James; Hausa Uprising (1835); Haviland, Laura Smith; Hayden, Lewis; Helper, Hinton Rowan; Henson, Josiah; Hermosa Case (1840); Heyrick, Elizabeth; Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society; Holley, Sallie; Hopkins, Samuel; Hopper, Isaac Tatem; Howard, Oliver Otis; Howe, Julia Ward; Howland, Emily; Hugo, Victor
Immediatism; Imperial Act (1793); Isabel, Princess Regent of Brazil
Jacobs, Harriet; Jamaica, Abolition in; Jamaica, Emancipation in; Jamaica Rebellion (1831-1832); Jocelyn, Simeon Smith; Johnson, Andrew; Johnson, Oliver; Jones v. Van Zandt (1847); Julian, George Washington; Juneteenth
Keckley, Elizabeth; Kellogg, Hiram H.; Kemble, Frances Anne; Ku Klux Klan
Lacerda, Carlos de; Lafayette, Marquis de; Lamartine, Alphonse de; Langston, John Mercer; Lay, Benjamin; Lei Aurea (Golden Law, 1888); Lei do Ventre Livre (Free Birth Law, 1871); Liberia; Liberty Bell, The ; Liberty Party; Lincoln, Abraham; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; Lovejoy, Owen; Lundy, Benjamin; Lynching
Macaulay, Zachary; Madden, Richard Robert; Malvin, John; Mann, Horace; Manumission; Manumission in the Tropical Americas; Manzano, Juan Francisco; Maroon Wars, Jamaica (1729-1739; 1795-1796); Maroon Wars, Suriname (1600s-1800s); Maroons; Martineau, Harriet; Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment; May, Samuel Joseph; McKim, James Miller; Menezes, Jose Ferreira de; Mercer, Margaret; Mexican Emancipation Decree (1829); Mexico; Mill, John Stuart; Miller, Jonathan Peckham; Mirror of Liberty ; Missouri Compromise (1820); Montesquieu, Baron de La Brede et de; Morant Bay Rebellion (1865); More, Hannah; Mott, James and Lucretia Coffin Mott; Murray, Orson S.; Mystery, The
Nabuco, Joaquim; National Anti-Slavery Standard ; National Anti-Slavery Tract Society; Nell, William Cooper; New Granada, Abolition in; New Granada, Emancipation in; New York City Draft Riot (1863); Newton, John; North Star, The ; Northup, Solomon; Norton, John Treadwell; Novels, Antislavery; Novels, Pro-Slavery
O'Connell, Daniel; Olmsted, Frederick Law; Oroonoko (1688); Ottoman Emancipation; Owen, Robert Dale
Pacheco, Luis; Paine, Thomas; Palladium of Liberty, The ; Palmares; Palmerston Act (1839); Parker, John P.; Patrocinio, Jose do; Paul, Nathaniel; Peck, Sheldon; Pennington, James W.C.; Pennsylvania Freeman ; Personal Liberty Laws; Philanthropist, The ; Phillips, Wendell; Pillsbury, Parker; Port Royal Experiment; Porteus, Beilby; Post, Amy Kirby; Price, Thomas; Priestley, Joseph; Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842); Pritchard, "Gullah" Jack; Prosser, Gabriel; Pugh, Sarah; Purchasing Freedom; Purvis, Robert; Putnam, Caroline F.
Quakers (Society of Friends); Queiros Law (1850)
Racism; Ralston, Gerard; Ramsay, James; Ray, Charles B.; Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-Francois; Realf, Richard; Reason, Charles L.; Reason, Patrick H.; Reboucas, Andre; Reconstruction; Religion and Abolitionism; Rock, John Sweat; Roper, Moses; Rousseau, Jean Jacques; Rush, Benjamin; Russwurm, John B.
San Martin, Jose Francisco de; Sancho, Ignatius; Schoelcher, Victor; Second Great Awakening; Seward, William H.; Shadd Cary, Mary Ann; Shadrach Fugitive Slave Case (1851); Sharp, Granville; Sharpe, Samuel; Sierra Leone; Simcoe, John Graves; Smalls, Robert; Smith, Gerrit; Smith, Goldwin; Sociedad Abolicionista Espanola, La; Societe des Amis des Noirs, La; Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Society for the Civilization of Africa; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; Somersett Case (1772); Sons of Africa; Sonthonax, Leger Felicite; Spanish Abolition Acts (1880, 1886); Spooner, Lysander; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Stevens, Thaddeus; Steward, Austin; Still, William; Stone, Lucy; Stono Rebellion (1739); Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Stroyer, Jacob; Sturge, Joseph; Sumner, Charles; Sunderland, La Roy; Suriname, Abolition in; Suriname, Emancipation in; Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon;
Tacky's Rebellion (1760-1761); Tailors' Revolt (1798); Tallmadge, James, Jr.; Tappan, Arthur; Tappan, Benjamin; Tappan, Lewis; Taylor, John W.; 36¦ 30' North Latitude; Tocqueville, Alexis de; Torrey, Charles Turner; Toussaint L'Ouverture, Francois-Dominique; Truth, Sojourner; Tubman, Harriet; Turner, Nat
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); Underground Railroad; U.S. Colored Troops; U.S. Constitution (1789)
Valdes, Gabriel de la Concepcion; Van Buren, Martin; Varela y Morales, Felix; Vaux, Roberts; Veney, Bethany; Vermont Constitution (1777); Vesey, Denmark; Virginia Slavery Debate (1831-1832); Von Scholten, Peter
Wade, Benjamin Franklin; Walker's Appeal (1829); Ward, Samuel Ringgold; Washington, Booker T.; Washington, Bushrod; Webb, Richard Davis; Wedderburn, Robert; Wedgwood Cameos; Weekly Anglo-African Magazine, The ; Weld, Theodore Dwight; Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of; Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; Wesley, John; West Africa, Abolition in; Wheatley, Phillis; Whitfield, James Monroe; Whittier, John Greenleaf; Whitting, William; Wilberforce, William; Williams, Peter, Jr.; Wilmot Proviso (1846); Wilson, Harriet E.; Wilson, Hiram; Women's Rights and the Abolitionist Movement; Woolman, John; World Anti-Slavery Convention (1840); World Anti-Slavery Convention (1843); Wright, Elizur; Wright, Frances ("Fanny"); Wright, Henry Clarke; Wright, Theodore Sedgwick
Yearsley, Ann
Zembola, Zamba; Zong Case (1781)
Documents
Sermons and Religious Statements
Father Antonio Vieira's Sermon Condemning Indian Slavery (1653)
Pope Benedict XIV to the Bishops of Brazil (1741)
An Antislavery Sermon (1788)
A Religious Defense of Slavery (1822)
Pope Gregory XVI, In Supremo Apostolatus (1839)
Speech of the Archbishop of Bahia, in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, on the Subject of the Treaty for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade (1852)
Pope Leo XIII, In Plurimis (1888)
Letter From Ch. Cardinal Lavigerie Regarding Pope Leo XIII's Statement on Abolition (1888)
Personal Accounts, Papers, Journals, and Poetry
A Description of Brazil's Sugar Industry (1654)
John Woolman's Journal (1757)
John Newton's Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade (1788)
George Washington Frees His Slaves (1799)
A British Antislavery Poem (1809)
Frederick Douglass Describes Slave Resistance (1834)
Solomon Northup Describes a Slave Auction (1841)
John Greenleaf Whittier to Joseph Sturge on the Fugitive Slave Law (1851)
An American Abolitionist Poem (1851)
Henry Brown Escapes in a Box (1851)
A Letter on Contrabands (1862)
The Poet Whittier Celebrates Emancipation in Brazil (1867)
Correspondence Between Spanish and American Officials on the Merits of Abolition (1871)
A Spaniard on the State of Things in Cuba (1874)
Charles Darwin on Slavery (1882)
Collective Calls for Abolition and Emancipation
The Germantown Protest (1688)
Slaves Petition for Freedom During the American Revolution (1773)
William Wilberforce's Twelve Propositions (1789)
Letter Written by La Societe des Amis des Noirs (1789)
Prospectus of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (1823)
Prospectus of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa (1839)
Henry Highland Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1843)
The Free Soil Party's Platform of Principles (1852)
The Free Produce Movement (1857)
British Advocacy Against the Power of "King Cotton" (1863)
Address to King Amadeus I of Spain (1870)
Address of the Spanish Abolition Society to the Senate in Madrid (1872)
Memorial to the Marquis of Salisbury on the Slave Trade and Slavery in Afghanistan (1874)
The Anti-Slavery Jubilee (1884
Legislation and Court Cases and Decisions
The Yorke-Talbot Slavery Opinion (1729)
Lord Mansfield's Decision in Knowles v. Somersett (1772)
Pennsylvania Abolishes Slavery (1780)
The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
The Fugitive Slave Act (1793)
An Act Prohibiting Entry of Slaves into Non-Slave States (1803)
Great Britain's Slave Trade Act (1807)
The Closing of the African Slave Trade in the United States (1807)
The Abolition of Slavery in Mexico (1829)
The British Emancipation Act (1833)
The Gag Rule (1836)
The Cuban Slave Code (1843)
The French Colonial Act of Emancipation (1848)
Emancipation Decrees for the French Colonies (1848)
Brazil's Queiros Law (1850)
The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
The Ostend Manifesto (1854)
Emancipation Is Declared in Peru (1854)
Law Abolishing Slavery in Certain Territories of the Province of Angola (1856)
Law Liberating Slaves Upon Entering Into the Kingdom of Portugal (1856)
Vermont's Personal Liberty Law (1858)
The Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia (1861)
Emancipation in the Dutch Colonies (1862)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
The Reconstruction Amendments (1865, 1868, 1870)
Brazil's Free Birth Law (1871)
The Reception of Fugitive Slaves Aboard British Ships (1875)
Resolutions Adopted by the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations (1883)
The "Golden Law" Abolishing Slavery in Brazil (1888)
Newspaper Editorials
Inaugural Editorial of Freedom's Journal (1827)
Inaugural Editorial of The Liberator (1831)
To Readers of the Alton Observer (1837)
Frederick Douglass's Introduction to The North Star (1847)
South Carolina Herald Editorial (1851)
Editorial Responses to the Brooks-Sumner Affair (1856)
Editorial Responses to the Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Southern Editorial Responses to the Harpers Ferry Raid (1859)
"The Prayer of Twenty Millions" by Horace Greeley (1862)
President Lincoln's Response to Horace Greeley (1862)
An Editorial on Emancipation in Suriname (1863)
Joaquim Nabuco on the Brazilian Abolitionist Movement (1883)
Abolitionist Societies' Organizing Goals and Objectives
The African Institution (1807)
The German Society for the Abolition of Slavery (1848)
The Spanish Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (1871)
The Constitution of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (1873)
Congressional and Public Addresses, Speeches, and Proclamations
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)
David Walker Addresses Free Persons of Color (1828)
Abolitionists Protest British Recognition of the Republic of Texas (1840)
Abraham Lincoln's "Spot Resolutions" (1847)
Frederick Douglass's What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Owen Lovejoy Speaks Out Against the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1855)
Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech (1858)
The Freeport Doctrine (1858)
John Brown's Last Speech (1859)
John C. Fremont's Proclamation on Slaves (1861)
President Lincoln's Response to David Hunter's Proclamation Freeing Slaves (1862)
Chronology
Bibliography
Index
Review(s): Given the general strength of its content and with the added emphasis on emancipation, libraries wanting comprehensive collections in this subject will no doubt benefit from its addition. Both advanced high school students and undergraduates will find it valuable for background information and as a source of citations for further research. It is also a set that would benefit larger public libraries. Against the Grain
Examining wide-ranging topics like escaped slaves, violent insurrections, national movmements, landmark legislation, momentous events, and seminal figures, this A-Z resource provides exhaustive coverage of the fight to eliminate human bondage. ... This encyclopedia is rich in primary resources, many of which are difficult to find elsewhere. ...An excellent resource for anyone researching the development and proliferation of emancipation movements, and is recommended for academic and large public libraries. Booklist
Recommended. Academic and large public libraries; lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers and general readers. Choice
The scholarly breadth and quality evident in these articles is impressively consistent, and the contents are ideally suited to general readers and students. Biographies are particularly well-represented here, and judiciously reveal the perspectives of slaves, slavery advocates and defenders, and abolitionists. ... Suitable for academic and public libraries the Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World is excellent for both primary and secondary sources relevant to the study of this complex, and, at times, disturbing subject. It provides readers with several instruments that facilitate easy access to and use of its contents, and presents the most recent scholarship in the field. Reference Reviews
This is definitely the finest set of books on this subject to date. This will be the definitive reference on this subject for years to come. The Lone Star
    
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