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Intern: Katharine Beecher Brodock
Essay: Antislavery, Abolitionism, and the Republican Party of the 1800s
 Spring 2002
Faculty Advisor: Professor Larry Hudson

Letters used: 22; 30; 117
Transcriptions: 22; 30; 117
Bibliography
Footnotes

NOTES

  1. William S. McFeely. Frederick Douglass, WW Norton Company, New York, NY, 1991, pg 32.
  2. Vernon Loggins. "Writings of the leading Negro Antislavery Agents, 1840-1865," Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass, Andrews (editor), pg 38
  3. Letter 22, 6 November 1883
  4. Waldo Emerson Martin Jr. The Mind of Frederick Douglass, University Microfilms International, 1982, pg 278.
  5. Letter 22, 6 November 1883.
  6. Miller, Kelly. "Radicals and Conservatives", Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass, William L Andrews (editor), GK Hall, Boston MA, 1991, pg 36.
  7. Letter 22, 6 November 1883.
  8. Such reasons included feelings of obligation, religious feelings, sending the slaves back to Africa, political gains, and international pressure.
  9. James Clyde Sellman, "Abolitionism in the United States or Antislavery Movement in the United States," <http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_278.htm>.
  10. "Antislavery,"<http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gl/antisl8.htm>.
  11. Jeffersonian Democracy, based upon the political a philosophical ideas of Thomas Jefferson which he applied towards a theory of the function of government and democracy. The main ideas were that, according to the Declaration of Independence, "all men are created equal" and endowed with certain inalienable rights. He supported agriculture and, from this, the common man (seen as the independent farmer), state education and freedom of religion, speech and press. He felt that democracy could only safely be based on agriculture carried out by small, independent, and educated farmers. "Jeffersonian Democracy", American History, MacMillan Encyclopedia, Mark C Carnes (editor), Simon & Schuster MacMillan, New York NY, 1996, pg 513-4.
  12. "Republican Party", American History, 1996, pg 869-870.
  13. See Paper by Jay Thompson.
  14. The Liberty Party was formed in 1839 in response to William Lloyd Garrisons abolitionists and was the first antislavery political party.
  15. Martin, The Mind of Frederick Douglass, 1981, pg 251.
  16. Martin, The Mind of Frederick Douglass, 1981, pg 252.
  17. Wu Jin-Ping. Frederick Douglass and the Black Liberation Movement, Garland Publishing , Inc, New York NY,2000, pg 66.
  18. Parties like the Liberty Party, Radical Abolitionists, Whig Party and the Free Soiler Party.
  19. "Antislavery", American History, 1996, pg 50.
  20. Jin-Ping. Frederick Douglass, 2000, pg 77.
  21. "Republican Party", American History, 1996, pg 870.
  22. McFeely, Frederick Douglass, 1991, of 279.
  23. Horace Greeley ran under the newly formed Liberal Republican Party, formed due to its dissatisfaction with the Reconstruction policy. He was defeated by a landslide and died shortly after the election.
  24. Letter 117, 18 July 1872.
  25. Letter 117, 18 July 1872.
  26. McFeely. Frederick Douglass, 1991, pg 289.
  27. "Compromise of 1877", American History, 1996, pg 529.
  28. McFeely, Frederick Douglass, 1991, pg 289.
  29. Martin, The Mind of Frederick Douglass, 1981, pg 121-122 (by Exodus he meant the sudden migration of blacks from the South to the new Western territories, where they set up exclusively black communities as a result of harsh conditions in the South).
  30. Letter 30, 8 October 1882.
  31. McFeely. Frederick Douglass, 1991, pg 359.
  32. A primarily agrarian movement formed out of protest to growing industrialism that had been building in the late 1800s. "Populism", American History, 1996, pg 799.
  33. McFeely. Frederick Douglass, 1991, pg 317.
  34. McFeely. Frederick Douglass, 1991, pg 316.
  35. McFeely. Frederick Douglass, 1991, pg 363.