Don't have an account? Sign in via your Institution. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Search within Go to page:. Abstract and Keywords This article focuses on the historiography of abolition and antislavery.
All rights reserved. Sign in to annotate. Frederick Douglass was perhaps the most famous African American abolitionist, fighting tirelessly not only for the end of slavery but for equal rights of all American citizens. This copy of a daguerreotype shows him as a young man, around the age of 29 and soon after his self-emancipation. Print, c. The model of resistance to the slave power only became more pronounced after , when a long-standing Fugitive Slave Act was given new teeth.
Though a legal mandate to return runway slaves had existed in U. This law, coupled with growing concern over the possibility of that slavery would be allowed in Kansas when it was admitted as a state, made the s a highly volatile and violent period of American antislavery. Reform took a backseat as armed mobs protected runaway slaves in the north and fortified abolitionists engaged in bloody skirmishes in the west.
After two decades of immediatist agitation, the idealism of revivalist perfectionism had given way to a protracted battle for the moral soul of the country. For all of the problems that abolitionism faced, the movement was far from a failure. The prominence of African Americans in abolitionist organizations offered a powerful, if imperfect, model of interracial coexistence. While immediatists always remained a minority, their efforts paved the way for the moderately antislavery Republican Party to gain traction in the years preceding the Civil War.
It is hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln could have become president in without the ground prepared by antislavery advocates and without the presence of radical abolitionists against whom he could be cast as a moderate alternative.
House of Representatives. Thompson , and ex-governor David Wallace. Lane won re-election to a full term on May 3, and served until August 6, But upon occasion he would launch forth with an impromptu outburst of feeling which indicated a depth of conviction. Although he recently considered dropping out of politics due to a personal tragedy, Lane consented to be named as a candidate for state elector on the Whig ticket. He traveled across Indiana, and delivered public speeches in support of Clay for president.
Lane of Montgomery, being loudly called for, took the stand and addressed the immense multitude in exposition of the principles and aims of the Whig party. He increased his efforts on behalf of Clay in the fall and one can follow his speaking trail through the newspapers using Hoosier State Chronicles. The Democratic Party, however, was re-gaining dominance in Hoosier politics. The Whigs lost major ground in the state elections. In the presidential election, Hoosiers reflected the national choice of Democrat James K.
Polk over Clay. Among other issues, the Whig Party failed to sense a changing economic climate. The country was in an expansionist mindset and the Democrats catered to this hunger for land and the imagined opportunities associated with it. Lane had thought little about slavery thus far, and it would have been hard to imagine at this point in time, that he would one day unite the anti-slavery factions in Indiana.
In , he re-married after being widowed and focused his efforts on building a large white house in Crawfordsville which he named Lane Place. It was built to last — it still stands — and to serve as a quiet retreat from the national stage. His country, however, soon needed him. Yet as a patriot, he felt called to serve. He organized a group of volunteers who assembled outside Lane Place in June of and left home for war.
The regiment waited in vain for months to be ordered into battle. Meanwhile, Lane and the other officers watched as their troops contracted and succumbed to malaria, dysentery, yellow fever, and other diseases. Lane anticipated the need for a new political party, but the climate would not be ripe for another seven years. Zachary Taylor was the last Whig to win the presidency when he defeated Democrat Lewis Cass in the election. The new president was also a slaveholder.
However, a search through Indiana newspapers using Hoosier State Chronicles shows that Lane, putting party before personal sentiment, offered half-hearted support for Taylor. It began in the late s and ended in the late s.
Although tumultuous at times, the movement was mostly nonviolent and resulted in laws to Benjamin Lay Even though he stood just 4 foot, 7 inches tall and had a hunched back, Benjamin Lay loomed large among 18th century abolitionists. The Quaker dwarf first developed a hatred for slavery in the s while working as a merchant alongside sugar plantations in Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.
By the midth century, Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. What Is an Abolitionist? How Did Abolitionism Start? By , nearly 12, African Americans had returned to Africa. Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise of , which allowed Missouri to become a slave state, further provoked anti-slave sentiment in the North.
Recommended for you. Niagara Movement. Labor Movement. Montgomery Bus Boycott. Niagara Movement In , a group of prominent Black intellectuals led by W. Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the s and s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. Labor Movement The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers.
Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
0コメント