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Religion and Abolitionism
Books providing a general discussion of slavery as an
issue in American churches:
Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform
and the Religious Imagination (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994)
Carwardine, Richard. Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular
Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1865 (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1978).
Carwardine, Richard. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum
America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).
Daly, John Patrick. When Slavery Was Called Freedom:
Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and The Causes of the Civil
War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002).
Goen, C. C. Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Denominational
Schisms and the Coming of the American Civil War (Macon,
GA.: Mercer University Press, 1985).
McKivigan, John R., ed. Abolitionism and American Religion.
(New York: Garland, 1999). Collection of essays by experts
in the field.
McKivigan, John R. The War against Proslavery Religion:
Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984).
The Quakers, or Society of Friends, were, of course the
pioneers among religious groups in opposing slavery. These
books highlight their role in the antislavery movement:
Drake, Thomas Edward. Quakers and Slavery in America.
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950).
Soderlund, Jean R. Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
On the Web, this Public Broadcasting System (PBS) site
offers a useful piece on the Quakers and slavery:
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_1/p_7.html
This prizewinning study traces the evolution of Lincoln's
moral views on slavery and other issues:
Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.
(Grand Rapids.: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999).
For information on the American Colonization Society and
other groups that saw West African resettlement as the
answer to the problem of slavery in America, see these
books:
Burin, Eric. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History
of the American Colonization Society (Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2005).
Clegg, Claude Andrew. The Price of Liberty: African
Americans and the Making of Liberia (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Sanneh, Lamin O. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks
and the Making of Modern West Africa (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1999).
Shick, Tom W. Behold the Promised Land: A History of
Afro-American Settler Society in Nineteenth-Century Liberia
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).
Staudenraus, P. J. The African Colonization Movement,
1816-1865 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).
Wiley, Bell I., ed. Slaves No More: Letters From Liberia,
1833-1869 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,
1980).
The Library of Congress's "African Mosaic" website provides
helpful materials on the American Colonization Society
and the founding of Liberia:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
PBS's Africans in America website and the Afro-American
Almanac website also have good sections on colonization:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1521.html
http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/acs.htm
Stanford University's webpage on Liberia provides useful
links to information on the history and current status
of this West African republic:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/liberia.html
This book focuses on the role of African American clergy
in the abolitionist movement:
Swift, David Everett. Black Prophets of Justice: Activist
Clergy before the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1989).
This recent biography of David Walker will be helpful:
Hinks, Peter P. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David
Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
(University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press,
1997).
As is this convenient reprint of Walker's Appeal:
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the
World. Edited and with a new introduction by Peter
P. Hinks. (University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 2000).
The Boston African American Historic Site and PBS's "Africans
in America" website give good sketches of David Walker:
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/davidwalker.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931.html
For an online version of Walker's Appeal, go to the University
of North Carolina's "Documenting the American South" site:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/menu.html
These books on Bourne and Lundy are also of help:
Christie, John W., and Dwight L. Dumond. George Bourne
and the Book and Slavery Reconcilable (Wilmington:
Historical Society of Delaware, 1969).
Dillon, Merton Lynn. Benjamin Lundy and the Struggle
for Negro Freedom (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1966).
If you prefer material on the Internet, try this brief
sketch of Bourne:
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/B/BourneG.html
And these selections from his antislavery writings:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/bourne/bourne.html
And this sketch of Lundy from the 2002 Friends Journal:
http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/Benjamin_Lundy.htm
As you'd guess, there's substantial material on William
Lloyd Garrison, the central figure among American clergy-abolitionists.
These are some good starting points:
Garrison, William Lloyd. Thoughts on African Colonization.
With a new preface by William Loren Katz. (New York: Arno
Press and The New York Times, 1969).
Harwell, Richard Barksdale. "The Touchstone"; William
Lloyd Garrison and the Declaration of the Anti-Slavery
Convention, Philadelphia, 1833 (Northampton, MA: Smith
College, 1970.
Kraditor, Aileen S. Means and Ends in American Abolitionism;
Garrison and his Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850
(New York: Vintage Books, 1970).
Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and
The Abolition of Slavery (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1998).
Merrill, Walter M., ed. The Letters of William Lloyd
Garrison. Six volumes. (Cambridge. MA: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, 1971-1981).
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