Essay
The First Age of Reform
“In the history of the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson declared in 1841, “the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.”[1] Not much a joiner of causes...
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Two Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Connections between the American Revolution and the Haitian Revolution
The late eighteenth century saw two successful anti-colonial revolutions unfold in the...
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Liberator published
William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of the Liberator in Boston. It was the first publication dedicated to immediate emancipation of slaves without compensation to their owners.
Glossary Term – Event
Lincoln urged Thirteenth Amendment
In his annual message to Congress, President Lincoln urged passage of Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation had freed only those slaves in states still at war. The permanent emancipation of all slaves required a constitutional amendment. In April 1864, the Senate passed the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery in the United States. Opposition from Democratic congressmen prevented the amendment from receiving the required two-thirds majority in the House. Only after Lincoln was...
Glossary Term – Organization
contrabands
During the Civil War, Southern slaves who escaped to Union lines came to be called “contrabands.” The term was first used by General Benjamin Butler, who refused to return escaped slaves to Confederate slaveholders because he deemed them “contraband of war.”