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)