The Hypocrisy of American Slavery: Compare and Contrast
The Hypocrisy of American Slavery: Compare and Contrast
Josiah Wedgwood, "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" Medallion
You might know the name Wedgwood from your grandma's china cabinet, but Josiah Wedgwood, who is best known for making fancy British pottery, was also heavily into the abolition movement. In 1787, h...
John Greenleaf Whittier, Anti-Slavery Poetry
Poetry is not just for Valentine's Day cards. It can also be about political change. Whittier is best known today as one of the Fireside Poets, a group of New England poets who wrote cozy verses ab...
The Compromise of 1850
If there's one thing opposing sides love, it's compromise, right? So wrong.The Compromise of 1850 was a group of five legislative measures aimed at relieving sectional tensions over the expansion (...
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This book wins first place in the "Book That Sounds Like a Fun Kid's Story But Is Actually a Searing Treatise on Slavery" awards. And the most famous anti-slavery novel was written by a white femal...
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was still talking about the Fourth of July on the 5th of July. The day after he presented "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" at the Rochester celebrations, he presented a speech...