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Changing Ideologies/Belief Systems during the Abolition Period

By meghanegan
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    Abolitionist Movement

  • Founding of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society

    Founding of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society

    The world's first anti-slavery society, founded by the Quakers. Memebers included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Rush,
  • Gradual Emancipation Act

    Gradual Emancipation Act

    The first sate to pass this was Pennsylvania. It called for the phasing out of slavery.
  • "A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black Man"

    "A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black Man"

    Published in London, the first autobiography by a free black man.
  • Founding of the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

    Founding of the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

    A joining several state and regional antislavery societies into a national organization to promote abolition. Conference held in Philadelphia.
  • First Black Initiated Petition to Congress

    First Black Initiated Petition to Congress

    Philadelphia free blacks protest North Carolina laws re-enslaving blacks freed during the revolution.
  • French defeated in St. Domingue

    French defeated in St. Domingue

    This ended with the fouding of Haiti as an independednt black nation. This inspired many blacks in America.
  • Parliament outlaws British participation in the African Slave Trade

    Parliament outlaws British participation in the African Slave Trade

  • The US outlaws their participation in the slave trade

    The US outlaws their participation in the slave trade

  • Observations on the Slavery of the Africans and Their Descendants and on the Use of the Produce of their Labour

    Observations on the Slavery of the Africans and Their Descendants and on the Use of the Produce of their Labour

    Elias Hicks, a Quaker religious leader published this book advocating a consumer boycott of slave produced goods.
  • "A Series of Letters by a Man of Color"

    "A Series of Letters by a Man of Color"

    A pamphlet published by a black businessman and community leader, James Forten. The purpose of this pamphlet was to protest a law that required the registration of all blacks coming into Pennsylvania.
  • "The Genius of Universal Emancipation"

    "The Genius of Universal Emancipation"

    Benjamin Lundy, Quaker, establishes the first American Anti-Slavery newspaper