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1860

Baker, James Loring (fl. 1860)

Pamphlet

Title: Slavery.

Printed by John A. Norton. Claims that Anglo Saxon and African races can only coexist "in their present relative condition, but in no other way." Calls for free labor to gradually and permanently overtake slavery, but does not advocate slavery's immediate end. Fragile.

GLC00267.210
Essay

Slavery and Anti-Slavery

David Brion Davis

Abolitionism emerged in America as part of a massive fusion of reform movements related to religious revivals and dedicated to the goal of creating a righteous society capable of fulfilling America’s high ideals.[1] In part, the religious revivals and emergence of a reform-oriented "Benevolent Empire" was a response to drastic economic and social changes related to what historians term "the market revolution" and "the transportation revolution." In the generation following the War of 1812, improved roads and especially canals opened up markets and profits that were beyond the previous dreams…
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18 March 1799

Document signed

Title: [Slavery]

Negro woman "Jane" seeks a writ of "Homine Replegiando" (asking the Court to return to freedom) against Edward Worrall.

GLC08356
Collection Item

post 1865

Unknown

Broadside

Title: Slavery Days.

Printing of an anti-slavery poem written from the perspective of an older male slave who is close to dying. The first verse reads, "I am thinking now to day of the years that's pass'd away, When they tied me up in bondage long ago, In old Virginia State, it was there we separate, And it filled my heart with misery and woe; They took away my boy, he was his mother's joy, From a baby in the cradle we him raised, And they put us far apart, and it broke the old man's heart, In those agonising cruel slavery days."

GLC09003
Collection Item

30 May 1831

Document

Title: Slavery contract

Contract between James Reed and "Providence, a negro man aged about twenty-eight years," binding Providence to Reed for ninety years. Reed planned on emigrating to Texas, then a provice of Mexico, where slavery was not legal.

GLC08397
Collection Item

CIrca 1830

Horslydown, Clavis, (fl. 1830)

Pamphlet

Title: African Slavery

JB00490
Collection Item

circa 1830-1840

Unknown

Broadside

Title: Views of slavery

Abolitionist broadside with six images depicting kidnapping, torture, auction, and labor of slaves. With Channing quotation, "Our laws know no higher crime than that of reducing a man to slavery. To steal or to buy an African on his own shores is a piracy." Lithograph drawings.

GLC06477
Lesson Plan

Jefferson and Slavery

6, 7, 8

BackgroundThomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence invokes the ideals of democracy and freedom. Yet he remains a slaveholder for his entire adult life, and (unlike George Washington) does not free his slaves in his will. Jefferson’s own struggles, moral and political, to reconcile his position as a slaveholder and a democratic idealist earned him admiration on the one hand and a deep distrust on the other. Recent DNA evidence has shown it likely that Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings. In this lesson students will examine Jefferson’s complex personality…
Collection Item

circa 1840-1891

Header Record

Title: Slavery archive [decimalized]

Duley Family Papers, mostly by Enoch Duley and his son Enoch M. Duley. The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, land grants, genealogical material, land surveys and maps, a hymn book, and photographs, including cabinet cards, tintypes, and cartes de visite. These materials document the acquisition and division of land by the Duley family; genealogy of the Duley, Wood, and Underwood families; and serve as photographic documentation of a number of Duley family members over a range of years. For instance, the collection contains several photographs of Eva (Duley) Underwood, the youngest...

GLC06377
Classroom Resources

Guided Readings: Slavery

Economics, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

Reading 1:The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the...most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.....Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson, 1782 Reading 2:An hour before day light the horn is blown. Then the slaves arouse, prepare their breakfast, fill a gourd with water, in another deposit their dinner of cold bacon and corn cake, and hurry to the field again. It is an offense invariably followed by a flogging, to be found at the quarters…

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