Essential Civil War Curriculum | Julie L. Holcomb, William Lloyd Garrison | May 2014
William Lloyd Garrison
By Julie L. Holcomb, Baylor University
Resources
If you can read only one book
Author
Mayer, Henry
Title. City: Publisher, Year.
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the
Abolition of Slavery. New York: St.
Martin’s Griffin, 1998.
Books
Author
Blackett, R.J.M.
Brion, Davis, David
Burin, Eric
Faulkner, Carol
Fladeland, Betty
Title. City: Publisher, Year.
Building an Antislavery Wall: Black
Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist
Movement, 1830-1860. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1983.
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of
Slavery in the New World. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006.
Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History
of the American Colonization Society.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
2008.
Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and
Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century
America. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Men & Brothers: Anglo-American
Antislavery Cooperation. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1972.
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Holcomb, Julie L.
Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott
of Slave Labor, 1757-1865. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press (under contract).
Jeffrey, Julie Roy
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism:
Ordinary Women in the Antislavery
Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1998.
Kraditor, Alison
Means and Ends in American Abolitionism:
Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and
Tactics, 1834-1850. New York: Random
House, 1967.
Laurie, Bruce
Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social
Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005.
McDaniel, W. Caleb
The Problem of Democracy in the Age of
Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and
Transatlantic Reform. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
Merrill, Walter M. & Louis Ruchames, eds. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, 6
vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1971-1981.
Quarles, Benjamin
Black Abolitionists. New York, Oxford
University Press, 1969.
Reynolds, David
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man who
Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and
Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Vintage,
2006.
Richards, Leonard L.
Gentlemen of Property and Standing: AntiAbolition Mobs in Jacksonian America. New
York, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Robertson, Stacey
Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women
Abolitionists in the Old Northwest. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
Rugemer, Edward Bartlett
The Problem of Emancipation: The
Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2008.
Salerno, Beth A.
Sister Societies: Women’s Antislavery
Organizations in Antebellum America.
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press,
2005.
Stewart, James Brewer
William Lloyd Garrison and the Challenge of
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Stewart, James Brewer ed.
Yee, Shirley J.
Yellin, Jean Fagan & John C. Van Horne,
eds.
Emancipation. Arlington Heights, Ill.:
Harlan Davidson, 1992.
Holy Warriors: American Abolitionists and
American Slavery. New York: Hill and
Wang, 1997.
William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred:
History, Legacy, and Memory. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2008.
Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in
Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: The
University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women’s
Political Culture in Antebellum America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Organizations
Web Resources
URL
http://www.theliberatorfiles.com/
http://www.readinggarrisonsletters.com/
http://archive.org/details/bplscas/
Name and description
The Liberator Files is a website edited by
Horace Seldon and contains a collection of
items which appeared in The Liberator, a
Boston-based Abolitionist newspaper,
published under the editorship of William
Lloyd Garrison. The assembled items
represent only a tiny portion of what
appeared in the 1,803 editions of the paper,
published weekly from 1831-1865.
Reading Garrison’s Letters is a website
edited by Horace Seldon. William Lloyd
Garrison, nineteenth century radical
abolitionist, in addition to publishing the
Boston-based Liberator newspaper, wrote
hundreds of letter to both friends and foes.
Those letters, collected in several places,
become the source material of this site.
The Boston Public Library Antislavery
Collection contains approximately 40,000
pieces. In the late 1890's, the family of
William Lloyd Garrison, along with others
closely involved in the anti-slavery
movement, presented the library with a
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major gathering of correspondence,
documents, and other original material
relating to the abolitionist cause from 1832
until after the Civil War.
http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantis Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection at
lavery/
Cornell University contains one of the richest
collections of anti-slavery and Civil War
materials in the world, thanks in large part to
Cornell's first President, Andrew Dickson
White, who developed an early interest in
both fostering, and documenting the
abolitionist movement and the Civil War.
http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/quake Quakers and Slavery is a joint digitizing
rsandslavery/
project between the Quaker repositories at
Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.
Abolition was a cause whose beginnings and
sustenance came largely from Quakers in
northeastern America and England. The
materials selected for this project are
available for research within the confines of
our two Quaker repositories.
Other Sources
Scholars
Name
Julie L. Holcomb, Baylor University
Email
[email protected]
David W. Blight, Yale University
[email protected]
Carol Faulkner, Syracuse University
[email protected]
Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
[email protected]
Stacey Robertson, Bradley University
[email protected]
Beth Salerno, Saint Anselm College
[email protected]
James Brewer Stewart, Macalester
University
[email protected]
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