Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World

Junius P. Rodriguez

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780765612571
• eBook ISBN: 9781317471790
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement - whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas - has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed. This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. "The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition" provides definitive coverage of one of the most significant experiences in human history. It features primary source documents, maps, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and specialized indexes in each volume, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Topic Finder
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Map
• A-Z Entries
• A
• Abdy, Edward Strutt (1791–1846)
• Ableman v. Booth (1859)
• Abolition of Slavery Act (1833)
• Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807)
• Abolitionist Confederation
• Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848)
• Adams, William Edwin (1832–1906)
• African Institution
• African Squadron
• Alexander, George William (1802–1890)
• Aliened American, The
• Allen, Richard (1760–1831)
• Allen, Richard (1803–1886)
• Allen, Stafford (1806–1889)
• Allen, William G. (ca. 1820–ca. 1880)
• Alton Observer
• Amendments, Reconstruction
• American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
• American Anti-Slavery Society
• American Colonization Society
• American Missionary Association
• American Revolution (1775–1781)
• American Tract Society
• Amistad Case (1841)
• Anabaptists
• Anderson, Osborne Perry (1830–1872)
• Antelope Case (1825)
• Anthony, Susan B. (1820–1906)
• Anti-Abolition Riots
• Anti-Slavery Advocate
• Anti-Slavery Bugle
• Anti-Slavery International
• Anti-Slavery Reporter
• Apprenticeship and Emancipation
• Arango y Parreño, Francisco de (1765–1837)
• Artigas, José Gervasio (1764–1850)
• Ashmun Institute
• Assing, Ottilie (1819–1884)
• B
• Backhouse, Jonathan, Jr. (1779–1842)
• Ball, Charles (ca. 1780–?)
• Baptist War
• Beattie, James (1735–1803)
• Beecher, Henry Ward (1813–1887)
• Beecher's Bibles
• Behn, Aphra (ca. 1640–1689)
• Benezet, Anthony (1713–1784)
• Berbice Slave Revolt (1763)
• Betances y Alacán, Ramón Emeterio (1827–1898)
• Bevan, William (ca. 1800–ca. 1860)
• Bibb, Henry (1815–1854)
• Birkbeck, Morris (1764–1825)
• Birney, James Gillespie (1792–1857)
• Blackstone, William (1723–1780)
• Blair, William Thomas (ca. 1800–ca. 1870)
• Blanchard, Jonathan (1811–1892)
• Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (1818–1894)
• Bogle, Paul (1822–1865)
• Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830)
• Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll (1808–1892)
• Brazil, Abolition in
• Brazil, Emancipation in
• Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society
• British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
• British West Indies, Abolition in the
• Brown, Henry "Box" (1816–?)
• Brown, John (1800–1859)
• Brown, William Wells (ca. 1814–1884)
• Bruce, Henry Clay (1836–1902)
• Buffum, Arnold (1782–1859)
• Burleigh, Charles Calistus (1810–1878)
• Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818–1893)
• Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–1845)
• C
• Cadbury, Richard Tapper (1768–1860)
• Caesar, John (ca. 1770–1837)
• Canada
• Candler, John (1787–1869)
• Castlereagh, Lord (1769–1822)
• Castro Alves, Antônio de (1847–1871)
• Chace, Elizabeth Buffum (1806–1899)
• Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret (1807–1834)
• Channing, William Ellery (1780–1842)
• Chapman, Maria Weston (1806–1885)
• Chase, Salmon P. (1808–1873)
• Child, David Lee (1794–1874)
• Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802–1880)
• Church Missionary Society
• Cinqué, Joseph (ca. 1815–ca. 1879)
• Civil Rights Act (1866)
• Civil War, American (1861–1865)
• Clarke, Lewis G. (1815–1897)
• Clarkson, John (1764–1828)
• Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846)
• Clay, Cassius Marcellus (1810–1903)
• Coffin, Levi (1798–1877)
• Coles, Edward (1786–1868)
• Colored American, The
• Commonwealth v. Aves (1836)
• Commonwealth v. Jennison (1783)
• Compensated Emancipation
• Concert of Europe
• Condorcet, Marquis de (1743–1794)
• Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862)
• Congress of Vienna (1814–1815)
• Conselheiro, Antônio (1830–1897)
• Coolie Labor
• Crandall, Prudence (1803–1890)
• Creole Case (1841)
• Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (ca. 1806–1891)
• Crummell, Alexander (1819–1898)
• Cuba, Abolition in
• Cuba, Emancipation in
• Cuffe, Paul (1759–1817)
• Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah (ca. 1757–ca. 1791)
• Curaçao Slave Revolt (1795)
• D
• Danish West Indies, Abolition in the
• Danish West Indies, Emancipation in the
• Davis, Paulina Wright (1813–1876)
• Dawes, William (1799–1888)
• Day, Thomas (1748–1789)
• Day, William Howard (1825–1900)
• De Gouges, Marie Olympe (ca. 1748–1793)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
• Delany, Martin Robison (1812–1885)
• Demerara Revolt (1823)
• Dillwyn, William (1743–1824)
• Dolben's Act (1788)
• Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
• Douglass, Sarah Mapps (1806–1882)
• Downing, George Thomas (1819–1903)
• Drayton, Daniel (ca. 1802–1857)
• Dred Scott Case (1857)
• Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868–1963)
• Dunmore's Emancipation Decree (1775)
• Dutch West Indies, Abolition in the
• Dutch West Indies, Emancipation in the
• E
• Education of Former Slaves
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• Emancipation Act of 1833
• Equiano, Olaudah (1745–1797)
• Estlin, John Bishop (1785–1855)
• F
• Fairbanks, Calvin (1816–1898)
• Federal Writers' Project, Slave Narrative Collection
• Fedric, Francis (ca. 1810–ca. 1870)
• Fee, John Gregg (1816–1901)
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot (1787–1860)
• Foreign Slave Trade Act (1806)
• Forten, James, Sr. (1766–1842)
• "Forty Acres and a Mule"
• Foster, Abigail Kelley (1810–1887)
• Foster, Stephen Symonds (1809–1881)
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fox, George (1624–1691)
• Free Enquirer, The
• Free Soil Party
• Free Soil Pioneer
• Freedmen's Aid Societies
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Freedom Celebrations, International
• Freedom Celebrations, U.S.
• Frémont, John Charles (1813–1890)
• Frémont's Emancipation Decree (1861)
• French Emancipation Declaration (1794)
• French West Indies, Abolition and Emancipation in the
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Fugitive Slaves
• G
• Gag Resolution
• Gage, Frances Dana (1808–1884)
• Gama, Luís (1830–1882)
• Garner, Margaret (ca. 1834–1858)
• Garnet, Henry Highland (1815–1882)
• Garrett, Thomas (1789–1871)
• Garrison, William Lloyd (1805–1879)
• Gatch, Philip (1751–1834)
• Gay, Sydney Howard (1814–1888)
• German Coast Rebellion (1811)
• Germantown Protest (1688)
• Gibbons, Abigail Hopper (1801–1893)
• Gibbons, James Sloan (1810–1892)
• Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar (1823–1915)
• Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795–1864)
• Gilbert, Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
• Gordon, George William (1820–1865)
• Gradualism
• Grandy, Moses (ca. 1786–?)
• Great Awakening
• Great Postal Campaign
• Greeley, Horace (1811–1872)
• Grégoire, Abbé Henri (1750–1831)
• Griffing, Josephine (1814–1872)
• Grimké, Angelina Emily (1805–1879)
• Grimké, Charlotte Forten (1837–1914)
• Grimké, Sarah Moore (1792–1873)
• Grinnell, Josiah B. (1821–1891)
• Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw (ca. 1712–1775)
• Grosvenor, Cyrus Pitt (1792–1879)
• Guerrero, Vicente (ca. 1782–1831)
• H
• Habsburg Emancipation Decree (1781)
• Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)
• Hamilton, William (1773–1836)
• Hargrave, Francis (ca. 1741–1821)
• Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825–1911)
• Harpers Ferry Raid (1859)
• Haughton, James (1795–1863)
• Hausa Uprising (1835)
• Haviland, Laura Smith (1808–1898)
• Hayden, Lewis (ca. 1811–1889)
• Helper, Hinton Rowan (1829–1909)
• Henson, Josiah (1789–1883)
• Hermosa Case (1840)
• Heyrick, Elizabeth (1769–1831)
• Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society
• Holley, Sallie (1818–1893)
• Hopkins, Samuel (1721–1803)
• Hopper, Isaac Tatem (1771–1852)
• Howard, Oliver Otis (1830–1909)
• Howe, Julia Ward (1819–1910)
• Howland, Emily (1827–1929)
• Hugo, Victor (1802–1885)
• I
• Immediatism
• Imperial Act (1793)
• Isabel, Princess Regent of Brazil (1846–1921)
• J
• Jacobs, Harriet (1813–1897)
• Jamaica, Abolition in
• Jamaica, Emancipation in
• Jamaica Rebellion (1831–1832)
• Jocelyn, Simeon Smith (1799–1879)
• Johnson, Andrew (1808–1875)
• Johnson, Oliver (1809–1889)
• Jones v. Van Zandt (1847)
• Julian, George Washington (1817–1899)
• Jeneteenth
• K
• Keckley, Elizabeth (1818–1907)
• Kellogg, Hiram H. (1803–1881)
• Kemble, Frances Anne (1809–1893)
• Ku Klux Klan
• L
• Lacerda, Carlos de (fl. 1880s)
• Lafayette, Marquis de (1757–1834)
• Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790–1869)
• Langston, John Mercer (1829–1897)
• Lay, Benjamin (1677–1759)
• Lei Áurea (Golden Law, 1888)
• Lei do Ventre Libre (Free Birth Law, 1871)
• Liberia
• Liberty Bell, The
• Liberty Party
• Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)
• Locke, John
• Lovejoy, Elijah P. (1802–1837)
• Lovejoy, Owen (1811–1864)
• Lundy, Benjamin (1789–1839)
• Lynching
• M
• Macaulay, Zachary (1768–1838)
• Madden, Richard Robert (1798–1886)
• Malvin, John (1795–1880)
• Mann, Horace (1796–1859)
• Manumission
• Manumission in the Tropical Americas
• Manzano, Juan Francisco (ca. 1797–1854)
• Maroon Wars, Jamaica (1729–1739, 1795–1796)
• Maroon Wars, Suriname (1600s–1800s)
• Maroons
• Martineau, Harriet (1802–1876)
• Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment
• May, Samuel Joseph (1797–1871)
• McKim, James Miller (1810–1874)
• Menezes, José Ferreira de (1845–1881)
• Mercer, Margaret (1791–1846)
• Mexican Emancipation Decree (1829)
• Mexico
• Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
• Miller, Jonathan Peckham (1796–1847)
• Mirror of Liberty
• Missionary Agents
• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède et de (1689–1755)
• Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
• More, Hannah (1745–1833)
• Mott, James (1788–1868), and Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793–1880)
• Murray, Orson S. (1806–1885)
• Mystery, The
• N
• Nabuco, Joaquim (1849–1910)
• Nashoba Experiment
• National Anti-Slavery Standard
• National Anti-Slavery Tract Society
• Nell, William Cooper (1816–1874)
• New England Anti-Slavery Society
• New Granada, Abolition in
• New Granada, Emancipation in
• New York City Draft Riot (1863)
• Newton, John (1725–1807)
• North Star, The
• Northup, Solomon (1808–1863)
• Norton, John Treadwell (1795–1869)
• Novels, Antislavery
• Novels, Proslavery
• O
• O'Connell, Daniel (1775–1847)
• Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822–1903)
• Oroonoko (1688)
• Ottoman Emancipation
• Owen, Robert Dale (1801–1877)
• P
• Pacheco, Luís (1800–1895)
• Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)
• Palladium of Liberty, The
• Palmares
• Palmerston Act (1839)
• Parker, John P. (1827–1900)
• Patrocínio, José do (1853–1905)
• Paul, Nathaniel (1775–1839)
• Peck, Sheldon (1797–1868)
• Pedro II
• Pennington, James W.C. (1807–1870)
• Pennsylvania Freeman
• Personal Liberty Laws
• Philanthropist, The
• Phillips, Wendell (1811–1884)
• Pillsbury, Parker (1809–1898)
• Plácido
• Port Royal Experiment
• Porteus, Beilby (1731–1808)
• Post, Amy Kirby (1802–1889)
• Price, Thomas (1802–1868)
• Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
• Pritchard, "Gullah" Jack (?–1822)
• Prosser, Gabriel (ca. 1775–1800)
• Pugh, Sarah (1800–1884)
• Purchasing Freedom
• Purvis, Robert (1810–1898)
• Putnam, Caroline F. (1826–1917)
• Q
• Quakers (Society of Friends)
• Queiros Law (1850)
• Quock Walker Case
• R
• Racism
• Ralston, Gerard (ca. 1800–ca. 1880)
• Ramsay, James (1733–1789)
• Ray, Charles B. (1807–1886)
• Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-François (1713–1796)
• Realf, Richard (1834–1878)
• Reason, Charles L. (1818–1893)
• Reason, Patrick H. (ca. 1816–1857)
• Rebouças, André (1838–1898)
• Reconstruction
• Religion and Abolitionism
• Rock, John Sweat (1825–1866)
• Roper, Moses (1815–?)
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712–1778)
• Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)
• Russwurm, John B. (1799–1851)
• S
• San Martín, José Francisco de (1778–1850)
• Sancho, Ignatius (1729–1780)
• Schoelcher, Victor (1804–1893)
• Second Great Awakening
• Seward, William H. (1801–1872)
• Shadd Cary, Mary Ann (1823–1893)
• Shadrach Fugitive Slave Case (1851)
• Sharp, Granville (1735–1813)
• Sharpe, Samuel (1801–1832)
• Sierra Leone
• Simcoe, John Graves (1752–1806)
• Smalls, Robert (1839–1915)
• Smith, Gerrit (1797–1874)
• Smith, Goldwin (1823–1910)
• Sociedad Abolicionista Española, La
• Société des Amis des Noirs, La
• Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
• Society for the Civilization of Africa
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
• Society of Friends of the Blacks
• Somersett Case (1772)
• Sons of Africa
• Sonthonax, Léger Félicité (1763–1813)
• Spanish Abolition Acts (1880, 1886)
• Spooner, Lysander (1808–1887)
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902)
• Stevens, Thaddeus (1792–1868)
• Steward, Austin (1793–1869)
• Still, William (1821–1902)
• Stone, Lucy (1818–1893)
• Stono Rebellion (1739)
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811–1896)
• Stroyer, Jacob (1849–1908)
• Sturge, Joseph (1793–1859)
• Sumner, Charles (1811–1874)
• Sunderland, La Roy (1804–1885)
• Suriname, Abolition in
• Suriname, Emancipation in
• Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon (1815–1884)
• T
• Tacky's Rebellion (1760–1761)
• Tailors' Revolt (1798)
• Tallmadge, James, Jr. (1778–1853)
• Tappan, Arthur (1786–1865)
• Tappan, Benjamin (1773–1857)
• Tappan, Lewis (1788–1873)
• Taylor, John W. (1784–1854)
• Thirteenth Amendment
• 36°30' North Latitude
• Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–1859)
• Torrey, Charles Turner (1813–1846)
• Toussaint L'Ouverture, François-Dominique (ca. 1743–1803)
• Trelawney Town Maroons
• Truth, Sojourner (ca. 1797–1883)
• Tubman, Harriet (ca. 1820–1913)
• Turner, Nat (1800–1831)
• U
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
• Underground Railroad
• U.S. Colored Troops
• U.S. Constitution (1789)
• V
• Valdés, Gabriel de la Concepción (1809–1844)
• Van Buren, Martin (1782–1862)
• Varela y Morales, Félix (1788–1853)
• Vaux, Roberts (1786–1836)
• Veney, Bethany (ca. 1815–?)
• Vermont Constitution (1777)
• Vesey, Denmark (ca. 1767–1822)
• Virginia Slavery Debate (1831–1832)
• Von Scholten, Peter (1784–1854)
• W
• Wade, Benjamin Franklin (1800–1878)
• Walker's Appeal (1829)
• Ward, Samuel Ringgold (1817–1866)
• Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915)
• Washington, Bushrod (1762–1829)
• Webb, Richard Davis (1805–1872)
• Wedderburn, Robert (ca. 1762–?)
• Wedgwood Cameos
• Weekly Anglo-African Magazine, The
• Weld, Theodore Dwight (1803–1895)
• Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of (1769–1852)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1862–1931)
• Wesley, John (1703–1791)
• West Africa, Abolition in
• Wheatley, Phillis (ca. 1753–1784)
• Whitfield, James Monroe (1822–1871)
• Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)
• Whitting, William (1788–1862)
• Wilberforce, William (1759–1833)
• Williams, Peter, Jr. (1786–1840)
• Wilmot Proviso (1846)
• Wilson, Harriet E. (ca. 1820s–1863)
• Wilson, Hiram (1803–1864)
• Women's Rights and the Abolitionist Movement
• Woolman, John (1720–1772)
• World Anti-Slavery Convention (1840)
• World Anti-Slavery Convention (1843)
• Wright, Elizur (1804–1885)
• Wright, Frances (“Fanny”; 1795–1852)
• Wright, Henry Clarke (1797–1870)
• Wright, Theodore Sedgwick (1797–1847)
• Y
• Yearsley, Ann (1752–1806)
• Z
• Zembola, Zamba (ca. 1780–?)
• Zong Case (1781)
• Sermons and Religious Statements
• Personal Accounts, Papers, Journals, and Poetry
• Collective Calls for Abolition and Emancipation
• Legislation and Court Cases and Decisions
• Newspaper Editorials
• Abolitionist Societies' Organizing Goals and Objectives
• Congressional and Public Addresses, Speeches, and Proclamations
• Chronology
• Bibliography
• Index