What was the role of Abolitionist towards Emancipation? This topic has endless possibilities. On this week video, we discuss the database called America: History and Life with Full Text. We found multiple secondary sources to help discuss this topic. Michael Fellman explains, the abolitionist movement had crystallized both in philosophy and in leadership into two categories: Garrisonian radicals, who believed American society, North as well as South was fundamentally immoral, with slavery only worst of its many sins and who looked forward to a thorough-going change in tis institutional structure and ideology”.[1] In the article, A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Abolitionists in the Coming of the Civil War, the writers explained the role of abolitionist as “igniting and then fanning a dynamic process of cultural escalation”.[2]
Carvalho III, Joseph. “John Brown’s Transformation: The Springfield Years, 1846-1849.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 48, no. 1 (Winter 2020): 46–95.
Dillon, Merton. “The Failure of the American Abolitionists.” Journal of Southern History 25, no. 2 (May 1959): 159–77.
Ellis, Richard, and Aaron Wildavsky. “A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Abolitionists in the Coming of the Civil War.” Comparative Studies in Society & History 32, no. 1 (January 1990): 89–116.
Fellman, Michael. “Theodore Parker and the Abolitionist Role in the 1850’S.” Journal of American History 61, no. 3 (December 1974): 666–84.
Lande, Jonathan. “‘Lighting Up the Path of Liberty and Justice’: Black Abolitionist Fourth of July Celebrations and the Promise of America from the Fugitive Slave Act to the Civil War.” Journal of African American History 105, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 364–95.
Staudenraus, P. J. “The Popular Origins of the Thirteenth Amendment.” Mid America 50, no. 2 (April 1968): 108–15.
[1] Michael Fellman, “Theodore Parker and the Abolitionist Role in the 1850’S”, (Journal of American History 61, no. 3 December 1974), 666
[2] Richard Ellis and Aaron Wildavsky, “A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Abolitionists in the Coming of the Civil War”, (Comparative Studies in Society & History 32, no. 1 January 1990), 116
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