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Abolitionism
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First Great Awakening (c1731-1755) 1794 French Revolution abolishes slavery Second Great Awakening (c1790-1840) Napoleon reinstates slavery in colonies 1804 Haitian Revolution 1807 Britain bans Importation of Slaves Postwar abolitions and individual manumission in the North and border states 1833 Slavery Abolition Act (British) “Third Great Awakening” (c1850-1900)
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Abolitionism Different from an anti-slavery position “one who before the Civil War had agitated for the immediate unconditional, and total abolition of slavery in the United States” (James M. McPherson)
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Abolitionism William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator) John Greenleaf Whittier (The National Era) Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) Eliza Follen (The Child’s Friend.. Also contributor in The Slave’s Friend) Frederick Douglass (North Star) Henry Langston (first to attend Oberlin College) John Mercer Langston (dean of Howard University Law School)
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