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Abolition Movement

 
Web Sites
Databases (search for Abolition or key person)

Cornell University
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

Student Reseach Center (EBSCO)

Library of Congress
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

Student Resource Center (GALE)

University of Rochester
Frederick Douglass – biographical information from a university site http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html

Grolier Online

Public Broadcasting Service
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

Biography Resource Center (iCONN)

University of North Carolina
Site provides extensive information on David Walker and links to images of the primary source documents
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/menu.html

 

Religious Society of Friends
Information on Benjamin Lundy, a prominent publisher of anti-slavery literature - http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/Benjamin_Lundy.htm

 
AP Study Notes
An overview of most of the reform movements
*** be sure to click on the forward and backward arrows at the bottom of this web page****
http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/reform-crusades/
 
Key People
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Benjamin Lundy
David Walker