Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
See documents and pictures of those actively involved in the anti-slavery movement. From the Library of Congress.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
Historical documents trace how the abolitionists virulently decried slavery and denounced those who supported it.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Library: Samuel May Anti Slavery Collection
An extensive online digital collection of the pamphlets and leaflets that document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels.
Virginia Commonwealth University
American Transcendentalism Web: William Ellery Channing
This resource provides information about William Ellery Channing, including samples of his work.
University of Virginia
Uva: Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: Multi Media Archive
This site provides links to many different topics surrounding "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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History Tools
History Tools: Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 [Pdf]
Primary source material excerpted from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book promoting abolishment of slavery.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Race and Identity in Antebellum America
This unit features authors of Antebellum America and how they portray the American identity through their literature. Click on the tabs to explore the various resources available to enhance this unit.
Library of Congress
Loc: Today in History: June 5: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Learn about the publishing history and impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which was first serialized, then published as a complete work, then given new life as a theatrical production.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: The Literature of Upheaval [Pdf]
In this lesson, 8th graders read excerpts from Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and discuss the impact their ideas about society and slavery had when their books were published. They then examine a...
Other
19th C. u.s. Women's Writings: Lydia Maria Child's "Slavery's Pleasant Homes"
Text of several of Lydia Child's writings that supported her abolitionist sentiments.
Other
Maryland State Archives: Project Gutenberg Etext of Uncle Tom's Cabin
This site from the Maryland State Archives provides the full text of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Eserver
E Server: Anti Slavery Literature Project
The Antislavery Literature Project is a collaborative electronic publishing venture that provides educational access to the literature and history of the antislavery movement in the United States that is crucial to understanding African...
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom"
Newberry Library presents primary source materials from which students learn about the arguments made for abolition before the Civil War, how the appeals against slavery were framed, and what freedom would mean for the South and the...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: The Black Press
Selections from a black newspaper, "The Colored American, "from 1837-1838 that detail the numerous issues and agendas confronting enslaved and free blacks.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Emancipation: Abolition
Speeches, songs, letters, and pamphlets from the early- and mid-nineteenth century promoting the abolition of slavery and emancipation of enslaved peoples are provided within this resource.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Harriet B. Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 1
Discussion questions that guide the reading of Chapter 1 of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hyperlink to the entire text.
Emory University
Lewis H. Beck Center: Child, Lydia: The Stars and Stripes: A Melodrama
Read Lydia Maria Child's "The Stars and Stripes: A Melodrama." This play, originally published in the National Antislavery Standard (1853), served as propaganda for the abolitionist movement.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia : American Reviews of Uncle Tom's Cabin
From the University of Virginia read contemporary reviews from American newspapers and periodicals of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
PBS
Africans in America: Slave Narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin
Slave narratives were an effective tool to spread information about what slavery was really like. Perhaps the most widely read literature about slavery happened to be written by a white woman, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read about the impact...
Other
Slavery in New England: Anti Slavery Literature in the Mid 19th Century
An essay regarding anti-slavery literature in the mid-19th century, includes talk about the slave narrative.
Arizona State University
Arizona State University: Black History Month Exhibit: Anti Slavery Literature
Exhibit displays and explains literature relating to the antislavery movement.
PBS
Pbs: Africans in America: David Walker (1796 1830)
At this site from PBS you can read about the life of David Walker. Born in the late 18th century as a free black, he was most known for his pamplet, entitled "Appeal," which advocated slave revolt.
Emory University
Lewis H. Beck Center: Lydia Maria Child: Anecdote of Elias Hicks
Here, read the full text of Lydia Child's "Anecdote of Elias Hicks," which tells the story of an abolitionist Quaker. It was originally published in 1839.
Emory University
Lewis H. Beck Center: Child, Lydia Maria: Charity Bowery
Download and read Lydia Maria Child's "Charity Bowery," originally written in 1839, which tells the story of a freed slave's choices as she is allowed to take only one of her children out of slavery.