Black Abolitionists and American Antislavery Movements

RICHARD NEWMANROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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Benezet and Quakers

Phillis Wheatley in Boston

Black Founding Generations

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Don’t Forget Black Loyalists!

Black Founders: Main Themes

• 1)Making It Plain

• 2)Redefining National Priorities

• 3)Defining Black Abolitionism

Black Antislavery Generations

Black Antislavery Generations: Main Themes

1)Co-Founders of the New Struggle: Black Immediatism

2)Utilizing New Technologies

3)Tactics and Strategies Evolve…

Douglass circa 1840s!

The Sojourner

Connecticut Connections: Pennington, Beeman, and the Black Convention Movement

Black Military Generations

Civil Warriors

Black Military Documents and Images

• 1)Push Lincoln, Pull Union

• 2)Flight and Fight

• 3)Redefine Union!...?

Harriet Tubman Woodcut

Sgt Major Lewis Douglass, National Archives

Sgt. Major Lewis Douglass

29th Connecticut Action Shot

Battle of the Crator, Lithograph

29th and 30th Connecticut Monument, Danbury

Slaves are a “power that Cannot Be Ignored”!George Stephens, Weekley Anglo African Magazine (NYC), 1862