Roots of Abolitionism in Colonial Era

Roots of Abolitionism in Colonial Era

Abolition Movement, Ideology, and Activist

The roots of the American abolition movement trace back to the colonial era, where early religious groups like the Quakers and emerging enlightenment thinkers began questioning the morality of slavery. These initial moral and ideological challenges laid the foundational groundwork for the organized anti-slavery networks, pamphlets, and radical activist movements that would expand dramatically in the following decades across northern society.

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Birth Death Origin Age (Death)
1797
1800
1802
1805
1811
1823

Timeline

Category
Element
Year Abolition Movement, Ideology, and Activist
1764
Marriage (Moses Brown and Anna Brown)
1772
1779
Marriage (Moses Brown and Mary Olney)
1780
1791
Marriage (Samuel Slater and Hannah Wilkinson)
1797
Birth of Sojourner Truth (Period: c. 1797, Location: Ulster County, New York, United States (near present-day Esopus / Swartekill region))
1799
Marriage (Moses Brown and Phoebe Lockwood)
1800
Birth of John Brown (Period: May 9, 1800, Location: Torrington, Connecticut, United States)
1802
Birth of Lydia Maria Child (Period: February 11, 1802, Location: Medford, Massachusetts, United States)
1805
Birth of William Lloyd Garrison (Period: December 10, 1805, Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States)
1810
Marriage (Sojourner Truth, Thomas)
1811
Birth of Wendell Phillips (Period: November 29, 1811, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1812
1820
Marriage (John Brown, Dianthe Lusk)
1823
Birth of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Period: December 22, 1823, Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
1826
Escape from slave status
1828
Lawsuit to rescue son Peter
Marriage (Lydia Maria Child, David Lee Child)
1830
Activities in the American Anti-Slavery Society
Activities in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
1831
Founding of The Liberator
1833
Establishment of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Marriage (John Brown, Mary Ann Day Brown)
Publication of "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans"
1834
Marriage (William Lloyd Garrison, Helen Eliza Benson)
1835
Boston Riot
1836
Marriage (Wendell Phillips, Ann Terry Greene Phillips)
1837
Reaction to the murder of Elijah Lovejoy
1841
Editing of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard"
1843
Renaming to Sojourner Truth
1846
1847
Marriage (Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mary Elizabeth Channing)
1850
Resistance movement against the Fugitive Slave Act
Publication of "Narrative of Sojourner Truth"
1851
Speech "Ain't I a Woman?" at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention
1854
Anthony Burns rescue incident
Bleeding Kansas
1856
Pottawatomie massacre
Battle of Osawatomie
1859
Support for John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's trial and execution
John Brown support activities
Harpers Ferry raid
Death of John Brown
1860
Participation in the women's suffrage movement
"40 acres and a mule" land distribution demand movement
1861
Editorial cooperation for "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
1862
Correspondence with Emily Dickinson
1863
1864
Washington, D.C. streetcar racial segregation abolition campaign
1868
Publication of "An Appeal for the Indians"
1879
1880
1883
Death of Sojourner Truth
1884
1911

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