In the Methodist case, antislavery leaders voted to suspend a bishop who held slaves; in the Baptist case, antislavery members attempted to bar slaveholders from missionary work.
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Kaplan is mostly interested in Adams in order to contrast him, an "antislavery activist," with Lincoln, an "antislavery moralist" — someone who spoke against slavery but failed to take action against it.
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Lincoln, by contrast, made no such condemnations; he recognized that the nativist movement, despite its malevolent elements, was part of the antislavery movement, and he had no intention of dividing those antislavery forces.
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And he was also a great antislavery voice, around 1780.
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"Devoted to antislavery, temperance and general literature" was the slogan.
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Sierra Leone, the British antislavery colony established in 1787, provided the
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It nurtured the first antislavery movement and stood up to Hitler.
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Readers might remember the 1856 caning of Charles Sumner, the antislavery
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Slavery and Antislavery At The Nation's Founding by Sean Wilentz and The
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The emergence of the antislavery North lay more than a century off.
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The nation's founding document contained a fundamental antislavery ideal built into it.
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Ironically, it had contributed to the rising antislavery sentiment in the North.
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Lincoln considered himself part of an antislavery movement that also included abolitionists.
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The arrival of a Northern antislavery party in Congress caused violence to spike.
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She explained that the antislavery Republican Party had its roots in the city.
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Maybe L'Ouverture's antislavery principles were more flexible than James could ever have suspected.
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But she remained a central player in both the antislavery and women's suffrage movement.
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To the antislavery cause was added the pro-Union cause, a narrowly nationalist crusade.
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That, of course, was a small band of antislavery campaigners who called themselves Republicans.
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Ohio and Georgia — antislavery and slaveholding, respectively — were both parts of the same nation.
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The Gag Rule was the House's response to a rising tide of antislavery petitions.
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The same is true of her antislavery leanings and her fictional writings; we want more.
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Southern Democrats viewed the antislavery position of the emerging Republican Party as an existential threat.
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Bales ends his book with an account of an antislavery pageant in a Brazilian elementary school.
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Was this wife of an antislavery champion unusually frank in grappling with the problem of slavery?
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Clay belonged to a slaveholding family, but he freed his slaves and published an antislavery newspaper.
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Surely, even in these fractured times, just about everyone could agree on an antislavery measure. Right?
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The idea that antislavery sentiments dominated New England and flowed inevitably from it is wishful thinking.
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NO PROPERTY IN MAN Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding By Sean Wilentz 350 pp.
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Mr. Fowler and Mr. Wells appear to have been on the antislavery side of the debate.
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The civil rights movement gave white historians a newfound sympathy for abolitionists and their antislavery allies.
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In both churches, antislavery activists attempted to limit slavery by making it morally unacceptable and geographically constrained.
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He really shows you can be antislavery and a racist to the core without any difficulty whatsoever.
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Despite its historical importance, Mary's daguerreotype was but one example of transformative imagery in the antislavery movement.
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"Even if people were abolitionists and antislavery, they still looked at African-Americans as different," he said.
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A huge hit as a lecturer in England and Scotland, he rallied the already strong antislavery forces there.
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Delbanco's skills as a literary critic also illuminate the contributions fugitive slaves made to the growing antislavery movement.
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Delbanco aims to balance his antislavery allegiances with caution about the smugness that can come with historical hindsight.
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Slavery supporters saw his raging antislavery rhetoric as proof of Northern attempts to degrade and subjugate the South.
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The report also discusses Columbians who were involved in antislavery activities, if generally of the more moderate sort.
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Ms. Ovington grew up in a family that supported women's rights and had been part of the antislavery movement.
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Antislavery advocates, in turn, saw Brooks, Sumner's attacker, as part of a Slave Power plot to dominate the North.
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The lash of an antislavery petition or a floor speech is nothing compared with the lash of the whip.
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Out of the chaos emerged a new antislavery party, the Republicans, which got Lincoln elected to the presidency in 1860.
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While in Washington, he did board with antislavery Whigs and was especially influenced by their most prominent member, Joshua Giddings.
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In 1836, it passed what would be the first of several gag rules, forbidding antislavery petitions from even being discussed.
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Antislavery papers argued that an organized "Slave Power" was trying to spread slavery throughout the Union by stifling Northern opposition.
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Originally a Jacksonian Democrat, French became an antislavery Republican loyal to Lincoln, whom he served as commissioner of public buildings.
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It was founded in 1845 because white Southern Baptists disagreed with the antislavery attitudes and abolitionist activities of Northern Baptists.
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Greenberger opens with a scene of William Arthur and six hundred antislavery activists inside an upstate New York church in 18823.
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In the end, restoring the antislavery intent of the Constitution leaves a more perplexing question at the heart of American democracy.
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Their antislavery petitions predate the formation of the first (and exclusively white) abolition societies in the 1780s and 1790s, and they were faster to dismiss colonization as a legitimate antislavery plan, to demand immediate, uncompensated emancipation, to aid fugitive slaves in what came to be called the Underground Railroad and finally to promote organized slave rebellions.
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In a series of shocking confrontations, antislavery Northerners intervened, either to prevent the capture of fugitives or liberate those already in custody.
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Suggestions that Lee's image might face off against those of antislavery fighters like Nat Turner or John Brown seem to arouse horror.
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He belonged to the Whig party, which was tearing itself apart in the 1850s trying to accommodate its pro- and antislavery wings.
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There's a long tradition of liberal political activism in American poetry; early examples include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman's antislavery poems.
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However, the Railroad was part of a radical, interracial social movement that thrived in areas with free-black populations and antislavery organizations.
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Louisa continued to be John Quincy's political partner as he served in Congress after leaving the White House, supporting his antislavery efforts.
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He looked at the 1844 presidential election, where James K. Polk, a proslavery Democrat, narrowly defeated Henry Clay, a moderate antislavery Whig.
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Abolitionists then were often depicted as dangerous fanatics, but in truth the antislavery movement included many compromises when it came to black equality.
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Other episodes are simply tragic — the Civil War slaughter in Texas of dozens of antislavery German immigrants trying to reach slave-free Mexico.
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Adams was gagged for presenting antislavery petitions from women and blacks, Senator Warren for reading the words of a female civil rights icon.
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It took the firm-principled Abraham Lincoln, who was antislavery to the core, to accept civil war rather than allow the spread of slavery.
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The report also cited what it described as "significant progress" in antislavery actions by other governments since publication of the last report in 2014.
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"Right antislavery action is that which deals the severest deadliest blow upon slavery that can be given at that particular time," Douglass's endorsement went.
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Rather than delve into the British Empire's violent expansion into Africa and Asia during Victoria's reign, "Victoria" focuses instead on Prince Albert's antislavery activities.
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In the 19th century, written accounts by the formerly enslaved were one of the most common tools for advocacy in the American antislavery movement.
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Louisa continued to be a political partner to her husband as he served in Congress after leaving the White House, supporting his antislavery efforts.
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The anti-monument contingent rolls its eyes at this argument: If not for antislavery sentiment in the North, the South would never have seceded.
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Antislavery Northerners, denying that obligation and those supposed rights, saw the fugitives as heroic refugees from bondage, and resisted federal interference fiercely and sometimes violently.
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Some politicians saw anti-immigrant fervor as a perfect distraction, which they could use to unite proslavery and antislavery voters against a common foreign enemy.
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She was linked — for a time dangerously so — to the antislavery firebrand John Brown, whom some blamed for leading the nation into the Civil War.
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The brother of the antislavery editor Elijah P. Lovejoy, who had been murdered by a mob in 1837, Owen Lovejoy was himself an outspoken abolitionist.
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Other cartes-de-visite from the album portray individuals from antislavery lawyer Charles Sumner and British novelist Charles Dickens to entertainers Commodore Nutt and his wife.
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Students returned to their states and started schools of their own for black people, started black newspapers and antislavery newspapers, and opened their homes to activists.
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Facing a backlash for his antislavery stand in Missouri, a slave state, Lovejoy moved his paper to Illinois, but was killed by a mob in 1837.
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"We kind of let it slip that we have vulnerable people in our own communities," Kevin Hyland, Britain's first independent antislavery commissioner, said in an interview.
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Reaching Philadelphia, she is welcomed by William Still (Leslie Odom Jr.) and taken in by Marie Buchanon (Janelle Monáe), antislavery activists whose ease and urbanity astonish her.
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Although antislavery forces won crucial votes and changed important church policies, aggrieved proslavery church members left -- forming the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Knowing that one antislavery character has fashioned an airship and made friends with the hero hints that maybe he'll swoop down and transport the slave to freedom.
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When the Ohio abolitionist Joshua Giddings gave an antislavery speech, Dawson, clearly agitated, positioned himself in front of Giddings, vowing to kill him, and cocking his pistol.
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As Harriet Tubman, Ms. Hinds delivers an hourlong speech about her character's personal history and the future of the antislavery movement to an audience of white abolitionists.
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Harriet Tubman bill is delayed: The antislavery activist will not become the face of the $20 bill until after President Trump leaves office, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said.
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But the subject of slavery was so incendiary that in 1836 the House of Representatives implemented a "gag rule," whereby any antislavery petitions would be tabled automatically without debate.
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He understood that without their effort to change public opinion, his own more moderate antislavery politics, which focused on preventing slavery from expanding, not its abolition, would be impossible.
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But while some Whigs joined the antislavery cause, others switched to the nativist Know-Nothing or American Party, which for a time looked as if it would supplant the Whigs.
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While he seemed to couch his argument in antislavery terms, he was merely "disguising" his "equal opportunity racism," said William Deverell, a historian and the director of the Huntington-U.
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Having delivered his withering antislavery speech "The Crime Against Kansas," Sumner was sitting alone in the Senate at his desk, which was bolted to the floor, when Brooks approached him.
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On the surface Douglass does appear to be self-made — he was the escaped slave who willed his own freedom, stole the master's language and wrote masterpieces of antislavery literature.
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Fuelled by antislavery arguments, and adopting the style of moral suasion favored by female reformers, these parties tended to be welcoming to women, and even to arguments for women's rights.
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These trails, which can be walked in a few hours, include the Black Heritage Trail on Beacon Hill in Boston; a self-guided tour of antislavery sites in Concord, Mass.
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In spite of the state's antislavery bonafides—a greater proportion of Vermonters died in the Civil war than from any other state—Vermonters have had less to brag about since Appomattox.
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Westward expansion set off a desperate debate over the slavery status of new states, and Southern congressmen defended their slave regime by attempting to silence antislavery advocates with threats and violence.
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Outraged by one of Sumner's antislavery speeches, Preston Brooks of South Carolina brutally beat him to the ground in the Senate chamber a few days later, stopping only when his cane broke.
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Like the acerbic John Quincy Adams, the antislavery former president who represented Massachusetts in the House, Giddings intentionally goaded Southerners to violence in order to expose the barbarism of the slave power.
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Still, people might think about his antislavery crusade when they see the sign; they might think about the lives of African-Americans in New York in the decades after the Civil War.
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When the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe died in 1896, The Times minced no words about her antislavery book "Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly," the century's best-selling American novel.
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The royal couple will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a name taken from Prince Augustus Frederick, the son of King George III and Queen Charlotte and an antislavery advocate.
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Calculated to suppress antislavery politics once and for all, the decision instead alarmed Northerners by allowing the expansion of slavery — and it helped set the nation on the political course that ended in civil war.
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Joined with some recent assaults on Northern congressmen and the rising intensity of antislavery efforts, for Northerners and Southerners alike, the caning seemed to prove the existence of a sectional conspiracy to seize national control.
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"Thoughts on the Colonization of Free Blacks," by Robert Finley (19853) Blacks should be freed, trained "for self-government" and returned to Africa, according to the antislavery clergyman and former student of Samuel Stanhope Smith.
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In the late 19533s Mr. Katz edited two series — "The American Negro: His History and Literature" and "The Antislavery Crusade in America" — that totaled more than 200 volumes of scholarly and out-of-print texts.
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As a young woman, she and her mother were deeply involved in the antislavery movement, and she signed petitions protesting the federal government's treatment of the Cherokee and calling for states to repeal the death penalty.
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The diverse responses to the pain of discrimination suggest some of the strains within the antislavery movement, and as Sinha shows, the history of abolition, like most reform movements, is often a story of fragmentation and division.
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In his revealing and passionately argued book, he insists that because the framers did not sanction slavery as a matter of principle, the antislavery legacy of the Constitution has been "slighted" and "misconstrued" for over 200 years.
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That Sinha employs the concept of "waves," a term generally reserved for the study of modern feminism, suggests how she links antislavery not only with the women's rights movement but also with movements against every manner of inequality.
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She reminds us that Martin Luther King Jr. was so fond of quoting the 19th-century antislavery theologian Theodore Parker on the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice that most people attribute Parker's words to him.
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As Blight relates, Douglass was, in the eighteen-fifties, drawn by Brown's courage during the Kansas question—the question of whether slavery was to extend into the new territories—and by the implacable nature of his antislavery views.
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" But now, in the roiling crises over slavery in the 1850s — fugitive slave rescues, violent clashes in Kansas over slavery's expansion and a nation enthralled by the antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" — the author announced his new "disposition.
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David Waldstreicher, a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of "Slavery's Constitution," said this approach created ambiguity about the framers' intentions and the constitutionality of both proslavery and antislavery legislation.
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Enforcing the fugitive slave law put the federal government emphatically on the side of slavery over freedom, which hastened the collapse of the national political system, the rise of the antislavery Republican Party and the coming of the war.
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While deciding what to celebrate in 2020, peer into an antislavery society meeting a few weeks after ratification of the 15th Amendment to hear Frederick Douglass — black — argue it was time to return to the cause of woman suffrage.
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Harrisse also collected newspaper articles relating to the far more prominent troubles of another professor, Benjamin Hedrick, who caused a furor in 1856 when he publicly announced his support for John C. Frémont, the antislavery Republican candidate for president.
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Kenneth J. Kennedy, an adviser at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is partly responsible for preventing slave-made goods from entering the United States, said the loophole in the antislavery rule had been a frustrating problem for him and his agency.
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During a tour of this historic house — the former home of Rufus King (21769-215200), a signer of the Constitution, senator and antislavery activist — they will see a copy of The Long Island Farmer, the first newspaper published in the borough.
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The early president most helped by the Constitution's rejection of direct popular election was John Quincy Adams, later an antislavery hero, who won the White House in 1824-25 despite losing both the popular and electoral votes to Andrew Jackson.
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Led by Lewis Hayden, a fugitive from Kentucky, a group of men rushed the courtroom and hustled Shadrach into the crowd outside, which, like a "black squall" (the words of the white antislavery attorney Richard Henry Dana), swirled around him.
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The work of various historians, among them David Waldstreicher and Alfred W. and Ruth G. Blumrosen, supports the contention that uneasiness among slaveholders in the colonies about growing antislavery sentiment in Britain and increasing imperial regulation helped motivate the Revolution.
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It took decades for audiences to start seeing the play and its source text from an abolitionist perspective, but by the time Samuel Johnson wrote about "Oroonoko," at the end of 1759, the version being staged featured two additional antislavery scenes.
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"He wrote about heroic black women, slave rebellions and antislavery movements when discussing such matters was dangerous and seen as unpatriotic," Jesse Weaver Shipley, a professor of African and African-American studies and oratory at Dartmouth College, said in an email.
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Many had cut their teeth in the antislavery crusade of the 1850s and were still committed to Reconstruction on the basis of "free labor" and "free soil," where whites and blacks would work for wages as rational individuals responding to market incentives.
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Or, and this is the amazing part about the antislavery movement in Pittsburgh, they could, by the 1800s, remain in the Hill District, so that they could start their lives over there instead of having to trek all the way to Canada.
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She occupies the same seat as Charles Sumner, who was nearly clubbed to death on the Senate floor in 1856 by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina, who was offended to the point of murderous violence by one of Sumner's antislavery speeches.
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But for many different reasons — in part because the Democrats had co-opted their positions on tariffs and infrastructure spending — the Whig Party fell apart over the next decade, and an antislavery party with virtually no Southern members took its place: the Republicans.
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Perhaps the most famous example is from the 6900s, when antislavery activists earned significant media coverage—and support for their cause nationally—by emphasizing how deplorable it was for slaves to be bought and sold in close proximity to the White House and the Capitol.
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Thomas Downing was the son of freed slaves who became an oysterman in New York in the early 1800s and went on to operate one of the plushest oyster restaurants in New York, join the Underground Railroad and help form the city's antislavery society.
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It has always seemed to me that the happy warrior type of social reformers — like F.D.R. or Gandhi or the antislavery activist William Wilberforce, who showed gratitude for small gains but never lost sight of the need for more — have brought about the more lasting social change.
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Moreover, in rejecting the bad elements of the Know-Nothings, such as their hatred of immigrants and determination to shut America's door to them, he did not hesitate to identify with the good things they stood for, such as social reform groups, temperance groups and antislavery.
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Born on this day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln had a mythic impact far beyond the U.S. With his eloquence about democracy, his freeing of the slaves and his martyr's death as president, he has been embraced by fledgling republics, antislavery societies and countries trying to recover from civil war.
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In an early Mickey Mouse short, a 1933 parody of the antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" called "Mickey's Mellerdrammer," Mickey blacks his face with dynamite to play Topsy, a crazy-haired, raggedy-dressed, comically unruly black child from the book whose name had become synonymous with the pickaninny stereotype.
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This exhibition, curated by Édouard Duval Carrié, Tosha Grantham, and Marie Vickles — with help from New York University and Duke researchers — finds its artists responding to and interpreting a lost artifact: a "Book of Paintings" by José Antonio Aponte, a free black carpenter, artist, and leader of antislavery movement in Cuba.
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On this day in 1848, the first women's rights convention in the U.S. was held in Seneca Falls, N.Y. The event was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pictured above right with Susan B. Anthony, after they were barred from the convention floor at an antislavery convention in 1840.
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There was a moment in 1799 when, seeing an opportunity to curry favor with the British Empire and the hostile Americans, he treacherously betrayed an antislavery conspiracy in Jamaica — a coldblooded act if ever there was one, even if it served the narrow interest of the emancipated slaves in Saint-Domingue.
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In 1844, a small but determined vote for the antislavery Liberty Party in New York might have helped tip that crucial state from a Whig (Henry Clay) to a Democrat (James K. Polk) — and thus the abolitionists at the heart of the Liberty Party managed to elect the candidate most sympathetic to slavery.
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Blumenthal shows the many ways in which Lincoln came to hate the institution — the antislavery Baptists to whom he was exposed growing up; his trip as a youth to New Orleans, where he saw slavery and the slave markets of the Deep South firsthand; the murder of the abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy in nearby Alton, Ill.
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Noah Porter, the chief editor of the 1864 revision of Webster's dictionary (rights to which had then been acquired of G & C Merriam), is said to have instructed editors not to use quotations from antislavery sources in the dictionary, lest it be seen as a mouthpiece of the Union states during the Civil War.
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Born on this day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln had a mythic impact far beyond the U.S. With his craggy face, his eloquence about democracy, his freeing of the slaves and his martyr's death as U.S. president, he has been embraced by fledgling republics, antislavery societies worldwide and countries trying to recover from civil war.
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An antislavery Republican candidate for President, Frémont also played a crucial role in what is in retrospect one of the most astonishing parts of the American story: the inclusion of California as part of the United States, and not as the separate, perhaps Spanish-speaking country—the North American Chile—that its geography and history would seem to dictate.
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It is a little shocking to learn from Girard that at an early point in the revolution, when the antislavery cause seemed on the verge of collapse, L'Ouverture broached the idea of betraying his own emancipated followers by leading them back into bondage, in the hope of getting official protection for himself and one of his comrades.
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Frémont secured the Republican Presidential nomination, in 1856, by a shrewd piece of political maneuvering, one that reminds us just how complex and contradictory the politics of abolition were: some of the Know- Nothings, fiercely anti-immigrant (and anti-Catholic), were also antislavery, it being possible at the time for white working-class Americans to hate Irish people as much as they hated black people.
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As played through the social-media filter (meaning relevant context sometimes was lost), the interviews showed Mr. Moore saying: 20073) life was better early in American history despite the existence of slavery; 2) American immorality may well make the United States the focus of evil in the modern world; and 3) all constitutional amendments after the 10th — thus including the antislavery amendments and the one giving women the vote — should be repealed.
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