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Early Abolition
For general background on the early antislavery movement in the United States, see:
Bradley, Patricia. Slavery, Propaganda, and the American
Revolution (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1998).
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and
Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, 2001).
Newman, Richard S. The Transformation of American Abolitionism:
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
For the other side of the initial debate, you may want to consult this study of the rise of the pro-slavery opposition to abolitionism:
Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A History of the Defense
of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 (Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1987).
For brief sketches of some of the figures discussed in this essay, you could start with the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) website, "Africans in America Resource Bank" (Part 2: 1750-1805), which provides sketches of Prince Hall, Phyllis Wheatley, and Elizabeth Freeman:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/
Benezet receives treatment in another section of the same website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p248.html
This is a good online sketch of Woolman:
http://dinsdoc.com/houston-1.htm
Spartacus, the British educational website, offers a good brief sketch of Granville Sharp, with a link to one on Wesley:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsharp.htm
There are many good book-length biographies of many of the figures discussed in Frey's article. You might like to start with these:
Brookes, George S. Friend Anthony Benezet (Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press: 1937).
Cady, Edwin Harrison. John Woolman (New York: Washington
Square Press 1965).
Lascelles, E.C.P. Granville Sharp and the Freedom of
Slaves in England (London: Oxford University Press,
Humphrey Milford, 1928).
Rosenblatt, Paul. John Woolman (New York: Twayne
Publishers 1969).
Smith, Warren Thomas. John Wesley and Slavery (Nashville:
Abingdon Press,1986).
Your best and most convenient source for the lives of Timothy Ford and Henry DeSaussure is this University of Georgia seminar paper online:
http://www.uga.edu/colonialseminar/Hadden.pdf
These books provide details of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century slave revolts:
Davis, Thomas J. A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro
Plot" in Colonial New York (New York: Free Press,
1985).
Egerton, Douglas R. He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives
of Denmark Vesey (Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers,
1999).
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Great New York Conspiracy
of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law (Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2003).
Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and
Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (New York:
Random House, 2005).
Pearson, Edward A., ed. Designs against Charleston:
The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy
of 1822 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1999).
Robertson, David. Denmark Vesey (New York: Alfred
A. Knopf,1999).
You'll find the complete texts or excerpts from most of the individual antislavery and pro-slavery writings mentioned in this article in the anthologies mentioned above. There is a recent reprinting of Anthony Benezet's famous pamphlet available:
Benezet, Anthony, and John Wesley. Views of American
Slavery (New York: Arno Press, 1969).
And you'll find full text of most of the others online.
Two Quaker websites provide text of the 1688 Germantown petition and George Keith's Exhortation and Caution:
http://quakerinfo.org/Qs&Slavery.html
http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qwhp/gk-as1693.htm
PBS's "Africans in America" website is a gold mine for these sources:
Seawall's Selling of Joseph:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h301t.html
James Otis's Rights of the British Colonies:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h18.html
The 1773 petition of Peter Bestes et al.:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h22t.html
The Antislavery Literature Project provides Benjamin Lay's
All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocents in Bondage,
Apostates:
http://antislavery.eserver.org/religious/allslavekeepersfinal.doc/file_view
Digital History offers a full text of Benjamin Franklin's
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=233
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