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Abolitionism and the Transcendentalist Movement

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  • William Lloyd Garrison's "Liberator"- beginning of radical abolitonism

  • Reverend William Ellery Channing's "Slavery"

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    Emerson's "Silent Years"

  • Amos Bronson Alcott admitted black child into Temple School

  • Fuller refuses to publish antislavery material in the dial

  • "Man, the Reformer"- Emerson

  • Emerson gives abolitionist address at an antislavery rally organized by Concord Female Society

  • "New England Reformers"- Emerson

  • Period: to

    Emerson's political writings divided

    "Emerson's political writings are so internally divided between transcendentalist values and practical politics as to be practically useless."

  • Thoreau Jailed for not paying taxes

  • Period: to

    US War with Mexico

  • Resistance to Civil Government

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • 1850s- Emerson became a fervent abolitionist

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

  • Republican Party Formed

  • Anthony Burn's Trial

  • Slavery in Massachusetts- Thoreau

  • late 1850's most transcendentalists are abollitionists

  • A Plea for Cap'n John Brown

  • John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • Last Days of John Brown- Thoreau

  • Abraham Licoln Elected

  • "Boston Hymn" -Emerson

    Celebration of the Emancipation Proclomation

  • Emancipation Proclamation