Record #2344 (edit record; developers only)

Date: Aug 1, 1838

Event:

The Immediate Abolition Act passed in 1838 marks a victory for the abolition of slavery and slave trading throughout Britain and its colonies.

Notes: 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lslavery33.htm 

Topics:

*Abolition  

Links for Abolition:

William Murray, Lord Mansfield (Notes on the career of Mansfield.) (Laura Mandell)

Matthew Lewis on Colonial Slavery (Quotes from the slaveholder Matthew Lewis on slavery, which he sees as offering better conditions than those of laborers in England.) (Laura Mandell)

Emancipation Debate (Notes on the abolition debate, including Thomas Canning's speaking on behalf of emancipation.) (Laura Mandell)

Equiano: Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage (Excerpts from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.) (Steven Mintz)

Equiano: Describes His Arrival in the New World (Excerpts from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.) (Steven Mintz)

Equiano: Describes West African Religious Beliefs and Practices (Excerpts from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.) (Steven Mintz)

Equiano: Remembers His Kidnapping (Excerpts from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.) (Steven Mintz)

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (Transcription of the narrative by Mary Pierce.) (Rita Raley)

Aronowitz's Abolition Page (Resources include history of the movement, art, primary texts, et al.) (Mark Aronowitz)

African-American Mosaic Exhibit: Aboliton (Collection of mosaics relating to slavery and abolition.) (Library of Congress)

Influence of Prominent Abolitionists (Collection of mosaics realting to abolition and the influence of certain abolitionists including Garrison, et al.) (Library of Congress)

Conflict of Abolition and Slavery (Collection of mosaics relating to the abolition movement.) (Library of Congress)

Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 (HTML transcription of the text of the leader of the famed slave revolt. Important as a abolition text.) (American Revolution HTML Project)

Jupiter Hammon, "An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" (1787 (Text-only transcription of the text.) (U. Virginia)

Excerpts from Slave Narratives (Collection of transcriptions from slaves.) (Steven Mintz)

Slavery Bibliography, Part 1 (Comprehensive bibliography of slavery and abolition texts.) (Steven Mintz)

Slavery Bibliography, Part 2 (Comprehensive bibliography of slavery and abolition texts.) (Steven Mintz)

David Brion Davis & Steven Mintz, (Gilder Lehrman Institute) "The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery" (2-week seminar at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, N.Y. City. Indirectly relates to abolition.)

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, N.Y. City (Collection of abolition and slavery course-related resources.) (Steven Mintz)

Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation (Online journal.) (Patrick Manning & John Saillant)

Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. (edited Electronic Edition of The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African; funded by NEH.) (LeeAnn Morawski)

British History, The Slave Trade (required curriculum in UK)

Anti-Slavery Movement (encyclopedia entry)

Thomas Clarkson (encyclopedia entry)

William Wilberforce (encyclopedia entry)

John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of Joanna; an emancipated slave (from Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: Electronic Edition sponsored by NEH) (Natalia Smith)

Ashton Warner, Negro Slavery Described (online edition sponsored by NEH) (Natalia Smith)

James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (online transcription, sponsored by NEH) (Natalie Smith)

 

   

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