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Black Abolitionists and American Antislavery Movements

RICHARD NEWMANROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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Benezet and Quakers

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Phillis Wheatley in Boston

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Black Founding Generations

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Don’t Forget Black Loyalists!

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Black Founders: Main Themes

• 1)Making It Plain

• 2)Redefining National Priorities

• 3)Defining Black Abolitionism

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Black Antislavery Generations

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Black Antislavery Generations: Main Themes

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

2)Utilizing New Technologies

3)Tactics and Strategies Evolve…

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Douglass circa 1840s!

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The Sojourner

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

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Black Military Generations

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Civil Warriors

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Black Military Documents and Images

• 1)Push Lincoln, Pull Union

• 2)Flight and Fight

• 3)Redefine Union!...?

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Harriet Tubman Woodcut

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Sgt Major Lewis Douglass, National Archives

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Sgt. Major Lewis Douglass

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29th Connecticut Action Shot

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Battle of the Crator, Lithograph

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29th and 30th Connecticut Monument, Danbury

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