antislavery

That the Continental Congress felt like Jefferson’s antislavery sentiments were too controversial, but the accusation of “instigated insurrections” was not, suggests just how successful their campaign had been.

Lincoln’s outlook was rooted in a distinct antislavery constitutionalism, elaborated by reformers and politicians in counterpoint to the proslavery constitutionalism of Southern enslavers.

He needed Southern oligarchs’ support to secure a presidential nomination, but he needed his antislavery constituents’ votes to hold on to his Senate seat.

In the short term, however, the Haitian Revolution actually slowed the official antislavery campaign.

Popular pressure then forced British leaders to take the lead in the international antislavery crusade.

The first two volumes concentrated almost exclusively on the white male leaders of the antislavery campaign.

That would only foreshadow the “fractured antislavery world” to come, as Kantrowitz calls it, which emerged after the Civil War.

Although from his youth an antislavery man, Lincoln was not an Abolitionist in the early days of the slavery agitation.

He came forth as the champion of the antislavery cause in his native State, and soon attracted the eyes of the whole nation.

How far antislavery documents had influence on the slaves themselves, it is difficult to say.

A year later, the students of Lane Seminary determined to hold an antislavery prayer meeting.

He was one of the pioneers in the antislavery movement, and one of the founders of the Republican party.