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From Moral Suasion to Political Confrontation:
American Abolitionists and the Problem of Resistance
James Stewart
February 27, 2007

Essay

From Moral Suasion to Political Confrontation: American Abolitionists and the Problem of Resistance, 1831-1861, James Stewart

Document Package

Images of Abolitionism, powerpoint presentation by James Stewart

What Shall Be Done?

A Short Catechism, A Martyr for Liberty, and Appalling Developements

Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God

A Calm Appeal from the South to the North

The Negro's Response to Brown's Martyrdom, 1859

A Negro Emigration Convention, 1854

Frederick Douglass Discusses the Fourth of July, 1852

State Convention of Connecticut Negroes, 1849

"Founded in Avarice ...," 1837

David Walker's Appeal