Radical Impulses:
Abolitionism and Feminism
History 103
Nov. 13, 1998
Race Relations in the North
- White racism in post-emancipation North
- Black institutions
- Mutual aid societies
- Churches
Colonization
- Paul Cuffe’s proposal for black emigration
- American Colonization Society (est. 1817)
- White support
- Limited results
Emergence of Immediatism
- David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in particular and very expressly, to those of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
- Social bases of abolitionism
- Free blacks
- Evangelical whites
Abolitionism as a Radical Movement
- American Anti-Slavery Society (est. 1833)
- Moral suasion and mob violence
- Postal campaign
- Petition campaign and the "gag rule"
- Purity vs. politics
- Grimké sisters and the Woman Question
- 1840 convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society
- Anti-Garrisonians found new organizations
- American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Liberty Party
Emergence of Feminism
- 1840 convention of World Anti-Slavery Society
- Seneca Falls convention (1848)
- Demand for woman’s suffrage
- National Woman’s Rights Convention (1850)