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Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States

Provides extensive links to resources to the research needs of faculty and students in the area of anti-slavery efforts in early ninteenth century United States. It also includes extensive primary and secondary resource on the conditions of slavery.

United States Antislavery Movement

Abolition: a history of slavery and antislavery/Seymour Drescher
The Abolitionist Imagination/Andrew Delbanco
Anti-abolition Tracts and Anti-black Stereotypes: general statements pf the "Negro problem,"
Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America/Thomas G. Mitchell
The Black Hearts of Men: radical abolitionists and the transformation of race/John Stauffer
The Day of Small Things: abolitionism in the midst of slavery, Berea Kentucky, 1854-1864/Richard D. Sears
Douglass and Lincoln: how a revolutionary back leader and a reluctant liberator strugglrd to end slavery and save the union/ Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Early American Abolitionists: a collection of anti-slavery writings 1760-1820/James Basker, ed.
Emotion at High Tide: abolition as a controversial factor, 1830-1845/Henry Harrison Simms
Subversives: antislavery community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865/Stanley Harrold

Antislavery Outside the United States

Underground Railroad

Lists books that focus on the Underground Railroad and runaway slaves.

Secret lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of the Fugitives by Don Papson and Tom Calarco

Biographies

Below are selected books drawn from the TSU online catalog.

Resistance and Rebellion

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Subjects: History, Political Science, Geography and Africana Studies

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