Middlesex Middle School, Darien, CT 06820
 

Abolition Movement

 
Web Sites
Key People
Databases (search for Abolition or key person)
I will be heard!” - Abolitionism in America – an extensive online exhibition on this topic from Cornell University http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/index.htm
Frederick Douglass

Student Reseach Center (EBSCO)

The evolution of the abolition movement following the end of the War of 1812 http://historynow.org/09_2005/historian.html
William Lloyd Garrison
Student Resource Center (GALE)
Extensive guide to the history of the anti-slavery movement, with links to images of primary sources - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
Benjamin Lundy
Grolier Online
Frederick Douglass – biographical information from a university site http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html
David Walker
Biography Resource Center (iCONN)
Information on freed slave David Walker’s document “Appeal” which calls for slaves to revolt against their owners http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931.html
 
Site provides extensive information on David Walker and links to images of the primary source documents
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/menu.html
 
Information on Benjamin Lundy, a prominent publisher of anti-slavery literature - http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/Benjamin_Lundy.htm