Useful Links
The Growth of the American Anti-Slavery Society
http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/Slavery/aass.html Women & The antislavery movement http://scua.library.umass.edu/exhibits/hudson/Women%27s%20Rights.html |
Primary Sources
The Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society
https://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archive/the-constitution-of-the-american-antislavery American Anti-Slavery Society (1840) Proceedings of seventh annual meeting (Excerpts) https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html This is an ongoing compilation of leaders and officers of the American Anti-Slavery Society. This list is drawn principally from the Annual Reports of the Society that were published annually (with some gaps). We have compiled an alphabetical list of the officers, board members, and representatives of the Society. http://www.americanabolitionists.com/american-anti-slavery-society.html Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention, 1833 The abolitionist movement took shape in 1833, when William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and others formed the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. The group issued this manifesto announcing the reasons for formation of the society and enumerating its goals. The broadside includes the names of delegates from ten states, to the Anti-Slavery Convention. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam006.html#obj0 |
Lessons
Students will analyze the growth of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the slaveholding states’ view of the movement as a physical, economic and political threat
https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery/summary-objective-10
What arguments did abolitionists make against slavery? How did abolitionists propose to end slavery? These historical questions are at the center of this two-lesson unit focused on seven primary documents. In engaging with these questions and these documents, your students will consider the impacts and the limits of abolition, a social movement that spanned hundreds of years.
https://hsp.org/document-based-lesson-protesting-slavery
https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery/summary-objective-10
What arguments did abolitionists make against slavery? How did abolitionists propose to end slavery? These historical questions are at the center of this two-lesson unit focused on seven primary documents. In engaging with these questions and these documents, your students will consider the impacts and the limits of abolition, a social movement that spanned hundreds of years.
https://hsp.org/document-based-lesson-protesting-slavery