Shamsa Yacoub

A/A History 2233

Dr.Knight
Annotated Bibliography
October 31, 2014
Project Topic: Antebellum Era Abolishment Movement
Primary Sources
1) Ripley, C. Peter. "An Address to the Colored People of The United States." Witness for
Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Ed. Roy
Finkenbine, Michael Hembree, and Donald Yacovone. Chapel Hill: U of North
Carolina, 1993. Print.
This text is a primary source from Witness for Freedom an anthology consisting
of many firsthand accounts of slavery. It covers many aspects of the slave
discrimination of the north.
Fredrick Douglas was an African American abolishment activate. In this specific
piece he is addressing the blacks of America. He covers reasons on why slavery
should be gone and how as blacks none should be left behind. If one black man
is free everyone should have a chance to be free.
This address that Douglas gives can be used in my project because it is a firsthand
account of one of the speeches of Douglas who was a key activist in the
abolishment movement. It also is very broad and I can cover many things on that
specific address on reasons why Douglas decided on addressing the people when
he could have just lived his life as a free man.
2) Ripley, C. Peter. "Black Leaders and William Lloyd Garrison." Witness for Freedom:
African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Ed. Roy
Finkenbine, Michael Hembree, and Donald Yacovone. Chapel Hill: U of North
Carolina, 1993. Print.
This primary source is a letter found in an anthology book that consists of many
primary sources during the abolishment movement. It contains many firsthand
accounts of former slaves, freed slaves, and fugitive slaves. This text provides
many sources of slaves that talk about their experiences. It also consists of letters,
poems, pictures, and court papers during the antebellum era.
This text is vital for my project because it provides many primary sources in one
whole book. It holds a variety of first-hand accounts of the slaves and contains
abundant amounts of information that I can use on my project that focuses
specifically on the abolishment movement.

3) Ripley, C. Peter. "Professed Friends." Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on
Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Ed. Roy Finkenbine, Michael Hembree, and
Donald Yacovone. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1993. Print.
This piece is also collected by Ripley in his anthropology. It gives an account on
the prejudice of white abolishment activists. He believes that they are still
prejudice with blacks and it is noticeable. He is not afraid to show that even
though they are aiding the blacks with ending slavery they need to stop being
hypocrites.
I believe that this piece will help me because it gives the other side of the
abolishment movement. Everyone always thinks that the white activists are all
nice and are there to help, but some cant help being racist.
Secondary Sources
1) Faust, Drew Gilpin. "Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860." The
Ideology of Slavery Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860. Baton
Rouge:Louisiana State UP, 1981. Print.
This text covers the other side of the abolishment movement. It takes account of those in
pro-slavery south. Many tend not to focus on this side of the abolishment movement, but
it gives people both outlooks on how people thought during that time period.
This is important in my project because I can have both sides of the arguments present.
People can see how each side conflicted with each other and the problems they faced at
root.
2) Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of
Race. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002. Print.
In this book about the Abolishment movement it takes readers back in time through the
struggles and tension between blacks and whites. The races for freedom had begun and
the country had begun to split between those in favor for slavery and those that opposed
it.
Stauffer talks about the alliance between four men that sacrifice their lives to end slavery.
Men that wish to see equality for both whites and blacks. James McCune, Gerrit Smith,
Fredrick Douglass, and John Brown are the main people in the book. They consist of two
black men and two white men.

This text will help me on my project because it covers the time period I am focusing on.
The people also presented in the book are important figures that I will also talk about in
my term project as well. This book also contains lots of information that can be vital in
helping me with figuring out information that my textbook doesnt cover about the
abolishment movement.

3) Litwack, Leon F. North of Slavery; the Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chicago: U of
Chicago, 1961. Print.
This text covers many aspects during the antebellum period. It goes through the
abolishment movement as well as free slaves in its chapters. The author Leon Litwack is
an American historian who focuses his works on slavery.
This specific text will help me in my project because it contains many details on the
abolishment movement as well as the free slaves. Its also a very small book that is easy
to read.

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