Annotated Bibliography: The abolitionist Movement

Annotated Bibliography:

Primary Sources:

Garrison, William Lloyd. "Folly of the Abolitionists." The Liberator [New York City] 29 Mar. 1844, 14th ed., sec. 13: n. pag. Print.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Print.

Douglass, Fredrick. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass. N.p.: n.p., 1845. Print.

Secondary Sources:

Stewart, James Brewer. Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War. Amherst: U of Massachusetts, 2008. Print.

Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Book: Historical Context

In his book, published in 2008 in the University of Massachusetts press, Stewart examines the series of political crises created by a small group of radical abolitionists which played a pivotal role in the ways that abolitionism and slavery were viewed in America. He does this by following the events of the group and analyzing each of their political actions and the widespread political consequences of each of their political moves. The purpose of this book is to show how the deeply rooted system of slavery was slowly broken down by the rhetoric and political attacks of the abolitionist movement. This book is aimed at scholars and students who would be interested in the factors that ultimately determined how the Abolitionists changed the attitudes of the people towards slavery and created a large political war that in part led to the civil war.

Ferrell, Claudine L. The Abolitionist Movement. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006. Print.

Scholarly Peer reviewed Book: Historical Context

In her 2006 book, Ferrrel outlines the historical events of the American Abolitionist movement from the 1830’s to the 1850’s. She does this by detailing the events and how they fall into a greater story about how the abolitionist movement came to pass as it did in US history. The book is aimed at students of the abolitionist movement or American history who are reading to understand the detailed events and attitudes that resulted in the American Abolitionist movement.

Sinha, Manisha. The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition. N.p.: Yale UP, 2016. Print.

Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Book: Historical Context

In her book, published in the Yale University Press in 2016, Sinha aims to elaborate on the role that African American’s had in the Abolitionist Movement and the goal of emancipation. She does this by providing primary sources of black, anti-slavery writers which show that black resistance was strong and essentially the core of the abolitionist movement. She aims to illustrate how important the role of black resistance was in the Abolitionist movement and to break down the belief that the movement was a primarily white action.

Lamb, Benjamin. Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery: Moral Emotions in Social Movements. N.p.: Springer International, 2016. Print. Cultural Sociology.

Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Book: Protest

In his book, published by Springer International in 2016, Lamb illustrates the rhetorical and moral strategies applied in social movements and connects them to the tactics employed by the abolitionists of the 1830’s and 40’s. He does this by providing in depth contexts of abolition, the rhetoric of slavery and how abolitionist movements began to use a Rhetoric of recognition of racism to forward their cause. Lamb’s purpose in this book is to depict the role of morals and emotion on the abolitionist movement and to show how the leaders of the time used this form of rhetoric to change the attitudes towards slavery during the movement. This book is aimed at scholars of protest rhetoric who would be interested in the moral frameworks and drives that took place within the abolitionist movement.

Harrold, Stanley. The Abolitionists and the South: 1831-1861. Lexington, KY: U of Kentucky, 1995. Print.

Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Book: Protest

In his book, published in the University of Kentucky Press in 1995, Harrold explores several of the different abolitionist identities and roles that existed within the movement. He highlights the Southern black liberators, the white emancipators and Northern abolitionists who all interactively shaped abolitionist beliefs in the South and bring about an understanding of abolitionist culture. Harold works to show how after 1830, abolitionists in all of these regions had an intense impact on the upper South and strives to show the efficacy of all of these separate parts that were pushing for abolitionist culture in the upper south. The book is aimed at students and scholars who would be interested in an in-depth study of the moving parts of the abolitionist movement.

Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates. The Slave's Narrative. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985. Print.

Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Book: Identity

In his 1985 book, Charles Davis brings together the autobiographies of many African American ex slaves in order to portray the African American Slave Identity ranging from 1750 to 1861. These narratives examine the lifestyle, beliefs, and culture of the African American slave during the Abolitionist movement and express the identity felt by this group at the time. His purpose is to elaborate on the slave culture during the times of slavery in the United States and to provide a source for in depth autobiographical information of those selected individuals.The book is aimed at scholars and students of the abolitionist movement, American History, and African American history and culture.

Chaney, Michael A. Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2008. Print.

Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Book: Identity

In his 2008 book, published in the Indianan University Press, Chaney analyzes the formation of black identity throughout the abolitionist movement. He does so by explaining and inspecting the writings of prominent black leaders such as Fredrick Douglass and seeing how they embodied the feelings of Black free and enslaved men. With this book, Chaney aims to examine the culture of black identity and its formation throughout the abolitionist period. The book is aimed at both scholars and students who would be interested in black identity throughout the Abolitionist period and who would like to see how that identity was formed through the works and actions of prominent black Abolitionist leaders.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie. "From Fugitive Slave To Fugitive Abolitionist." Atlantic Studies 3.2 (2006): 201-24. Web.

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Article:

In her 2006 article, published by the Taylor & Francis Group, Bernier examines several works by Frederick Douglass and in particular his speeches on the Creole slave ship mutiny. These speeches embody the black identity of the abolitionist movement and his passion played in significant role in the mutiny and the greater abolitionist movement. Bernier aims to give a detailed explanation as to how Douglass’s speeches and literary works made him such an impassioned and influential figure in the abolitionist movement. This article is aimed at scholars and students who would like to understand the role that Fredrick Douglass played in the abolitionist movement and to see how his rhetoric, lifestyle, and literary works made him an embodiment of the movement that he is now known as.

Aptheker, Herbert. The Negro in the Abolitionist Movement. 1st ed. Vol. 5. New York: International, 1941. Print. Pp. 2-23.
Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Article:

In his 1941 article, which was published in several international journals, Herbert Aptheker attempts to portray the role of black people in the abolitionist movement in a different way than has been generally expressed by others who wrote about the topic. He does so by implying that other authors previously writing about the movement have made it seem as though whites were the only ones championing the movement and that black people took a backseat. He shows the effect that black people had on the movement by explaining the beliefs, and actions of black people over the course of the abolitionist movement and the impact that their attitudes had on the movement. The author hopes to show the significant impact that black people had in their own emancipations throughout the movement rather than making it seems as though they were passive observers of the movement. This is aimed at other scholars who have written about the movement, but also the laypeople to change the established ideas that mostly white individuals were the ones driving the movement

Shortell, T. "The Rhetoric of Black Abolitionism: An Exploratory Analysis of Antislavery Newspapers in New York State." Social Science History 28.1 (2004): 75-109. Web.
Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Article:

In the 2004 article, Timothy Shortell analyzes the rhetoric of abolitionist newspapers to assuage the fear of a form of “slave power” and define the abolitionist movement as a civil rights movement. He does this by exploring the rhetoric the newspapers use over the course of 30 years to remove this fear and prejudice and lead the north into a rhetoric of equality and civil rights for all free men. The author’s purpose in this is to expand upon the way abolitionist newspapers changed the conversation of northern abolition from one of “slave power” to one of civil rights and expand the role that black freemen and slaves had on the abolitionist movement. Shortell has aimed his article at scholars and students who would be interested in the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement and references many other works of other writers, building upon some more recent works which also studied the same subject.

Litwack, Leon F. "The Abolitionist Dilemma: The Antislavery Movement and the Northern Negro." The New England Quarterly 34.1 (1961): 50-73. Web.

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Article

In his article, printed in The New England Quarterly in 1961, Litwack explains how Southern slaveholders were able to resist the ideals of abolition by showing that free black men in the North still faced the same plights as slaves in the South and that slavery was actually the kinder institution. He outlines the way in which the South made this case and the difficulty Abolitionists faced in striking this sort of argument from the conversation about slavery and its injustices. Litwack aims his book at scholars and students who would be interested in the historical context of Southern resistance of the abolitionist movement during the pre-civil war era. His purpose is simply to elaborate on this phenomenon and argument that the south presented and how articulate how the North struggled in presenting a way to denounce this argument as the battle for emancipation continued.

Chukwu, Dan O. "Background to the Era of New Abolitionism." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 17 (2007): 1-15. Web.

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Article:

In the 2007 Article, published by the Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Chukwu attempts to outline a detailed network of how black abolitionists were involved in the United States Abolitionist movement. He gives a timeline of examples such as African Americans in journalism and certain abolitionist groups, with consequential factors stemming from each of the major examples, depicting the way in which black abolitionists had a significant and impactful role on the United States movement and the movements around the world. This article is aimed at scholars of Abolitionist history and scholars of the African American movements of freedom around the world. The purpose of this article is to display the role that African Americans had on their own freedom and change the scholarly conversation that currently depicts white emancipators as the only significant leaders of the movement.

Olson, Joel. "The Freshness of Fanaticism: The Abolitionist Defense of Zealotry." Perspectives on Politics 5.04 (2007): 685-701. Web.

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Article

In his article, published by the American Political Science Association in 2007, Joel Olson attempts to depict the role of Zealotry in politics and liberal democracy and articulate and defend its use in the American Abolitionist movement. He does this by presenting several American abolitionists such as Wendell Phillips, a radical, who sought to mobilize the public sphere against slavery through zealous and extreme speeches. Olsen’s aim is to examine the role of Zealotry and democracy and create ties between the two through the Abolitionist movement to move away from the current attitude in which zealotry or fanaticism are increasingly regarded as threats to democracy in the current scholarly conversation of politics. This article is aimed at other scholars of politics in order to sway them of the usefulness of zealotry in fostering and building a democracy through the example of the Abolitionist movement

O'Loughlin, Jim. "Articulating "Uncle Tom's Cabin"" New Literary History, Philosophical and Rhetorical Inquiries 31.3 (2000): 573-97. Johns' Hopkins University Press. Web.

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Article:

In his article, printed in the Johns’ Hopkins University Press in 2000, O’Loughlin articulates the role of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in American history and the abolitionist movement as it personalized the acts of slavery and transgressed the boundaries of race and gender. He does this by articulating the popularity of the book and to bring attention to the mixing of cultural elements that allowed it to be such a widespread text in the public sphere of American history. The article is mainly aimed at scholars who have criticized the book and downplayed its significance in the American Abolitionist movement by depreciating its public impact.

Jasper, James M. "The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions In and Around Social Movements." Sociological Forum 13.3 (1998): 397-424. Web.

Theoretical peer-reviewed scholarly source

In Jasper’s 1998 article, “The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions In and Around Social Movements.”, printed in the Sociological Forum, he argues that every protest has emotional arcs and moral platforms through which they are built. He develops this by showing the emotional stages of a protest and providing several frameworks that provide an emotion based lens, through which most protests can be categorized into certain emotional stages. This argument is being made to in a way return people back to seeing the emotion that is clearly so relevant in protest rather than stripping protests and their rhetoric down to logical claims. This argument is aimed at other scholars of protest who have been perpetuating aforementioned flaw in thinking about protests and the way they evolve and grow as if the emotions of the people involve have only a minor role.