Methodist camp meeting (1819 engraving)

Culture and Voices of Crisis in Conversation

By A_Psahos

  • Birth of Harriet Ann Jacobs

    Edenton, NC

  • Foundation of the American Colonization Society

  • Constitution of the Raleigh Female Benevolent Society

    Constitution of the Raleigh Female Benevolent Society

  • Rise of the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance

  • New York State Abolishes Slavery

  • Sojourner Truth Sets Precedent By Winning the Freedom of her Son in Court Against a White Man

  • David Walker's Appeal

    David Walker's Appeal

  • The Liberator: "To the Public"

    Written by William Lloyd Garrison, white abolitionist New Englander. This is the first issue of the publication

  • Garrison Recruits Maria W. Stewart to Write for "The Liberator"

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Confessions of Nat Turner

    Published by Thomas Ruffin Gray

  • Angelina Grimke - Appeal to the Christian Women of the South

    Published in The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 1836

  • The Publication of Emerson's Essay "Nature"

  • Charles Finney's Sermon "Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Heart"

  • Formation of the Liberty Party

    Ran presidential candidates in 1840 and 1844

  • Dorothea Dix starts a Sunday school class at the East Cambridge House of Correction in Massachusetts

  • Mary Paul Writes a Letter to Her Father While Working at Lowell Mills

  • Wilmot Proviso is (almost) Passed

  • The Creation of the Independent Nation of Liberia

    The society was established in 1822 by the ACS.

  • Frederick Douglass begins publication of the North Star

  • The Declaration of Sentiments, drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

    The Declaration of Sentiments, drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

  • The Publication of Thoreau's Essay "Resistance to Civil Government"

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

  • Sojourner Truth is Published in "The Anti Slavery Bugle"

  • The Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"

    Speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass at Rochester's Corinthian Hall

  • The Publication of Thoreau's "Walden"

  • Charlotte Forten Documents An Antislavery Meeting

  • Nelly's Noble Resistance by Frederick Douglass

    From My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855

  • Charlotte Forten Journals Mistreatment at the Hands of White Students

  • Margaret Garner's Escape

    Margaret Garner's Escape

  • Helen Mar Whitney's Defense of "Plural Marriage"