Abolitionism

Abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups condemned it as un-Christian. Though antislavery...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
To Be a Slave
The Peculiar Institution
Challenging the boundaries of slavery
Inhuman bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
From Homicide to Slavery
The travels of William Wells Brown, including The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, and The American fugitive in Europe, sketches of places and people abroad
From fugitive slave to free man
The narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave
Anthony Burns

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

To Be a Slave

The Peculiar Institution

Challenging the boundaries of slavery

Inhuman bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

From Homicide to Slavery

The travels of William Wells Brown, including The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, and The American fugitive in Europe, sketches of places and people abroad

From fugitive slave to free man

The narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave

Anthony Burns

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