The Transformation of American Abolitionism
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10240697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Bingham van Broekhoven (corresponding author), Richard Newman (0000-0002-2603-2209), Richard S Newman |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 913 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27648585 |
| OpenAlex | W2800330113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
How abolitionism evolved from an elite and conservative movement to a radical, grassroots reform cause; Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly evolved. Tracing the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the 1830s, Richard Newman focuses particularly on its transformation from a conservative lobbying effort into a fiery grassroots reform cause. What began in late-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania as an elite movement espousing gradual legal reform began to change in the 1820s as black activists, female reformers, and nonelite whites pushed their way into the antislavery movement. Centered in Massachusetts, these new reformers demanded immediate emancipation, and they revolutionized abolitionist strategies and tactics - lecturing extensively, publishing gripping accounts of life in bondage, and organizing on a grassroots level. Their attitudes and actions made the abolition movement the radical cause we think of it as today
Abolitionism · Political science · Sociology · Transformation (genetics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Abolitionism
Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade
The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America
“A Sacrifice on the Altar of Slavery”
Antislavery Science in the Early Republic
Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era
"A "class of Citizens
Quakers as Political Players in Early America
Creating Social Capital in the Early American Republic
Seventeen Centuries of Sin
The religious field and the path-dependent transformation of popular politics in the Anglo-American world, 1770-1840
William Lloyd Garrison’s Shattered Faith in Antislavery Constitutionalism
Walking Away with Thoreau
The Indian's Cause
The Dialectic of Representation
No One Who Reads the History of Hayti Can Doubt the Capacity of Colored Men
From Polity to Exchange
A peculiar silence
Abolitionists and the Eloquence of Abuse
Federalists, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Influence
To Friends and All Whom It May Concerne”
Rethinking Self-Reliance
In Pursuit of the Revolutionary-Not-Yet
A Yahgan for the killing
The Fourth and the First
Soliciting Elites
Rhetorical Revolution
Tracing the Historical DNA and Unlikely Alliances of the American Charter School Movement
Seeing the Light
Trading in Jersey Souls
Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu
Destiny seems to point me to that country’
Between empire and colony
Time, Space, and Jurisdiction in Atlantic World Slavery
The Antislavery Almanac and the Discourse of Numeracy
The Public Sphere and the End of American Abolitionism, 1833–1870
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2021 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |