Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World

Abdy, Edward Strutt (1791–1846)

Ableman v. Booth (1859)

Abolition of Slavery Act (1833)

Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807)

Abolitionist Confederation

Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848)

Adams, William Edwin (1832–1906)

African Institution

African Squadron

Alexander, George William (1802–1890)

Aliened American, The

Allen, Richard (1760–1831)

Allen, Richard (1803–1886)

Allen, Stafford (1806–1889)

Allen, William G. (ca. 1820–ca. 1880)

Alton Observer

Amendments, Reconstruction

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

American Anti-Slavery Society

American Colonization Society

American Missionary Association

American Revolution (1775–1781)

American Tract Society

Amistad Case (1841)

Anabaptists

Anderson, Osborne Perry (1830–1872)

Antelope Case (1825)

Anthony, Susan B. (1820–1906)

Anti-Abolition Riots

Anti-Slavery Advocate

Anti-Slavery Bugle

Anti-Slavery International

Anti-Slavery Reporter

Apprenticeship and Emancipation

Arango y Parreño, Francisco de (1765–1837)

Artigas, José Gervasio (1764–1850)

Ashmun Institute

Assing, Ottilie (1819–1884)

Backhouse, Jonathan, Jr. (1779–1842)

Ball, Charles (ca. 1780–?)

Baptist War

Beattie, James (1735–1803)

Beecher, Henry Ward (1813–1887)

Beecher's Bibles

Behn, Aphra (ca. 1640–1689)

Benezet, Anthony (1713–1784)

Berbice Slave Revolt (1763)

Betances y Alacán, Ramón Emeterio (1827–1898)

Bevan, William (ca. 1800–ca. 1860)

Bibb, Henry (1815–1854)

Birkbeck, Morris (1764–1825)

Birney, James Gillespie (1792–1857)

Blackstone, William (1723–1780)

Blair, William Thomas (ca. 1800–ca. 1870)

Blanchard, Jonathan (1811–1892)

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (1818–1894)

Bogle, Paul (1822–1865)

Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830)

Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll (1808–1892)

Brazil, Abolition in

Brazil, Emancipation in

Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

British West Indies, Abolition in the

Brown, Henry "Box" (1816–?)

Brown, John (1800–1859)

Brown, William Wells (ca. 1814–1884)

Bruce, Henry Clay (1836–1902)

Buffum, Arnold (1782–1859)

Burleigh, Charles Calistus (1810–1878)

Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818–1893)

Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–1845)

Cadbury, Richard Tapper (1768–1860)

Caesar, John (ca. 1770–1837)

Canada

Candler, John (1787–1869)

Castlereagh, Lord (1769–1822)

Castro Alves, Antônio de (1847–1871)

Chace, Elizabeth Buffum (1806–1899)

Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret (1807–1834)

Channing, William Ellery (1780–1842)

Chapman, Maria Weston (1806–1885)

Chase, Salmon P. (1808–1873)

Child, David Lee (1794–1874)

Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802–1880)

Church Missionary Society

Cinqué, Joseph (ca. 1815–ca. 1879)

Civil Rights Act (1866)

Civil War, American (1861–1865)

Clarke, Lewis G. (1815–1897)

Clarkson, John (1764–1828)

Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846)

Clay, Cassius Marcellus (1810–1903)

Coffin, Levi (1798–1877)

Coles, Edward (1786–1868)

Colored American, The

Commonwealth v. Aves (1836)

Commonwealth v. Jennison (1783)

Compensated Emancipation

Concert of Europe

Condorcet, Marquis de (1743–1794)

Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862)

Congress of Vienna (1814–1815)

Conselheiro, Antônio (1830–1897)

Coolie Labor

Crandall, Prudence (1803–1890)

Creole Case (1841)

Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (ca. 1806–1891)

Crummell, Alexander (1819–1898)

Cuba, Abolition in

Cuba, Emancipation in

Cuffe, Paul (1759–1817)

Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah (ca. 1757–ca. 1791)

Curaçao Slave Revolt (1795)

Danish West Indies, Abolition in the

Danish West Indies, Emancipation in the

Davis, Paulina Wright (1813–1876)

Dawes, William (1799–1888)

Day, Thomas (1748–1789)

Day, William Howard (1825–1900)

De Gouges, Marie Olympe (ca. 1748–1793)

Declaration of Independence (1776)

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)

Delany, Martin Robison (1812–1885)

Demerara Revolt (1823)

Dillwyn, William (1743–1824)

Dolben's Act (1788)

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)

Douglass, Sarah Mapps (1806–1882)

Downing, George Thomas (1819–1903)

Drayton, Daniel (ca. 1802–1857)

Dred Scott Case (1857)

Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868–1963)

Dunmore's Emancipation Decree (1775)

Dutch West Indies, Abolition in the

Dutch West Indies, Emancipation in the

Education of Former Slaves

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Emancipation Act of 1833

Equiano, Olaudah (1745–1797)

Estlin, John Bishop (1785–1855)

Fairbanks, Calvin (1816–1898)

Federal Writers' Project, Slave Narrative Collection

Fedric, Francis (ca. 1810–ca. 1870)

Fee, John Gregg (1816–1901)

Fifteenth Amendment

Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot (1787–1860)

Foreign Slave Trade Act (1806)

Forten, James, Sr. (1766–1842)

"Forty Acres and a Mule"

Foster, Abigail Kelley (1810–1887)

Foster, Stephen Symonds (1809–1881)

Fourteenth Amendment

Fox, George (1624–1691)

Free Enquirer, The

Free Soil Party

Free Soil Pioneer

Freedmen's Aid Societies

Freedmen's Bureau

Freedom Celebrations, International

Freedom Celebrations, U.S.

Frémont, John Charles (1813–1890)

Frémont's Emancipation Decree (1861)

French Emancipation Declaration (1794)

French West Indies, Abolition and Emancipation in the

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Fugitive Slaves

Gag Resolution

Gage, Frances Dana (1808–1884)

Gama, Luís (1830–1882)

Garner, Margaret (ca. 1834–1858)

Garnet, Henry Highland (1815–1882)

Garrett, Thomas (1789–1871)

Garrison, William Lloyd (1805–1879)

Gatch, Philip (1751–1834)

Gay, Sydney Howard (1814–1888)

German Coast Rebellion (1811)

Germantown Protest (1688)

Gibbons, Abigail Hopper (1801–1893)

Gibbons, James Sloan (1810–1892)

Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar (1823–1915)

Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795–1864)

Gilbert, Ann Taylor (1782–1866)

Gordon, George William (1820–1865)

Gradualism

Grandy, Moses (ca. 1786–?)

Great Awakening

Great Postal Campaign

Greeley, Horace (1811–1872)

Grégoire, Abbé Henri (1750–1831)

Griffing, Josephine (1814–1872)

Grimké, Angelina Emily (1805–1879)

Grimké, Charlotte Forten (1837–1914)

Grimké, Sarah Moore (1792–1873)

Grinnell, Josiah B. (1821–1891)

Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw (ca. 1712–1775)

Grosvenor, Cyrus Pitt (1792–1879)

Guerrero, Vicente (ca. 1782–1831)

Habsburg Emancipation Decree (1781)

Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)

Hamilton, William (1773–1836)

Hargrave, Francis (ca. 1741–1821)

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825–1911)

Harpers Ferry Raid (1859)

Haughton, James (1795–1863)

Hausa Uprising (1835)

Haviland, Laura Smith (1808–1898)

Hayden, Lewis (ca. 1811–1889)

Helper, Hinton Rowan (1829–1909)

Henson, Josiah (1789–1883)

Hermosa Case (1840)

Heyrick, Elizabeth (1769–1831)

Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society

Holley, Sallie (1818–1893)

Hopkins, Samuel (1721–1803)

Hopper, Isaac Tatem (1771–1852)

Howard, Oliver Otis (1830–1909)

Howe, Julia Ward (1819–1910)

Howland, Emily (1827–1929)

Hugo, Victor (1802–1885)

Immediatism

Imperial Act (1793)

Isabel, Princess Regent of Brazil (1846–1921)

Jacobs, Harriet (1813–1897)

Jamaica, Abolition in

Jamaica, Emancipation in

Jamaica Rebellion (1831–1832)

Jocelyn, Simeon Smith (1799–1879)

Johnson, Andrew (1808–1875)

Johnson, Oliver (1809–1889)

Jones v. Van Zandt (1847)

Julian, George Washington (1817–1899)

Jeneteenth

Keckley, Elizabeth (1818–1907)

Kellogg, Hiram H. (1803–1881)

Kemble, Frances Anne (1809–1893)

Ku Klux Klan

Lacerda, Carlos de (fl. 1880s)

Lafayette, Marquis de (1757–1834)

Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790–1869)

Langston, John Mercer (1829–1897)

Lay, Benjamin (1677–1759)

Lei Áurea (Golden Law, 1888)

Lei do Ventre Libre (Free Birth Law, 1871)

Liberia

Liberty Bell, The

Liberty Party

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

Locke, John

Lovejoy, Owen (1811–1864)

Lundy, Benjamin (1789–1839)

Lynching

Macaulay, Zachary (1768–1838)

Madden, Richard Robert (1798–1886)

Malvin, John (1795–1880)

Mann, Horace (1796–1859)

Manumission

Manumission in the Tropical Americas

Manzano, Juan Francisco (ca. 1797–1854)

Maroon Wars, Jamaica (1729–1739, 1795–1796)

Maroon Wars, Suriname (1600s–1800s)

Maroons

Martineau, Harriet (1802–1876)

Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment

May, Samuel Joseph (1797–1871)

McKim, James Miller (1810–1874)

Menezes, José Ferreira de (1845–1881)

Mercer, Margaret (1791–1846)

Mexican Emancipation Decree (1829)

Mexico

Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)

Miller, Jonathan Peckham (1796–1847)

Mirror of Liberty

Missionary Agents

Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède et de (1689–1755)

Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)

More, Hannah (1745–1833)

Mott, James (1788–1868), and Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793–1880)

Murray, Orson S. (1806–1885)

Mystery, The

Nabuco, Joaquim (1849–1910)

Nashoba Experiment

National Anti-Slavery Tract Society

Nell, William Cooper (1816–1874)

New England Anti-Slavery Society

New Granada, Emancipation in

New York City Draft Riot (1863)

Newton, John (1725–1807)

North Star, The

Northup, Solomon (1808–1863)

Norton, John Treadwell (1795–1869)

Novels, Antislavery

Novels, Proslavery

O'Connell, Daniel (1775–1847)

Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822–1903)

Oroonoko (1688)

Ottoman Emancipation

Owen, Robert Dale (1801–1877)

Pacheco, Luís (1800–1895)

Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)

Palladium of Liberty, The

Palmares

Palmerston Act (1839)

Parker, John P. (1827–1900)

Patrocínio, José do (1853–1905)

Paul, Nathaniel (1775–1839)

Peck, Sheldon (1797–1868)

Pedro II

Pennsylvania Freeman

Personal Liberty Laws

Philanthropist, The

Phillips, Wendell (1811–1884)

Pillsbury, Parker (1809–1898)

Plácido

Porteus, Beilby (1731–1808)

Post, Amy Kirby (1802–1889)

Price, Thomas (1802–1868)

Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)

Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

Pritchard, "Gullah" Jack (?–1822)

Prosser, Gabriel (ca. 1775–1800)

Pugh, Sarah (1800–1884)

Purchasing Freedom

Purvis, Robert (1810–1898)

Putnam, Caroline F. (1826–1917)

Quakers (Society of Friends)

Queiros Law (1850)

Quock Walker Case

Racism

Ralston, Gerard (ca. 1800–ca. 1880)

Ramsay, James (1733–1789)

Ray, Charles B. (1807–1886)

Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-François (1713–1796)

Realf, Richard (1834–1878)

Reason, Charles L. (1818–1893)

Reason, Patrick H. (ca. 1816–1857)

Rebouças, André (1838–1898)

Reconstruction

Religion and Abolitionism

Rock, John Sweat (1825–1866)

Roper, Moses (1815–?)

Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712–1778)

Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)

Russwurm, John B. (1799–1851)

San Martín, José Francisco de (1778–1850)

Sancho, Ignatius (1729–1780)

Schoelcher, Victor (1804–1893)

Second Great Awakening

Seward, William H. (1801–1872)

Shadd Cary, Mary Ann (1823–1893)

Shadrach Fugitive Slave Case (1851)

Sharp, Granville (1735–1813)

Sharpe, Samuel (1801–1832)

Sierra Leone

Simcoe, John Graves (1752–1806)

Smalls, Robert (1839–1915)

Smith, Gerrit (1797–1874)

Smith, Goldwin (1823–1910)

Sociedad Abolicionista Española, La

Société des Amis des Noirs, La

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Society for the Civilization of Africa

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

Society of Friends of the Blacks

Sons of Africa

Sonthonax, Léger Félicité (1763–1813)

Spanish Abolition Acts (1880, 1886)

Spooner, Lysander (1808–1887)

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902)

Stevens, Thaddeus (1792–1868)

Steward, Austin (1793–1869)

Still, William (1821–1902)

Stone, Lucy (1818–1893)

Stono Rebellion (1739)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811–1896)

Stroyer, Jacob (1849–1908)

Sturge, Joseph (1793–1859)

Sumner, Charles (1811–1874)

Sunderland, La Roy (1804–1885)

Suriname, Abolition in

Suriname, Emancipation in

Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon (1815–1884)

Tacky's Rebellion (1760–1761)

Tailors' Revolt (1798)

Tallmadge, James, Jr. (1778–1853)

Tappan, Arthur (1786–1865)

Tappan, Benjamin (1773–1857)

Tappan, Lewis (1788–1873)

Taylor, John W. (1784–1854)

Thirteenth Amendment

Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–1859)

Torrey, Charles Turner (1813–1846)

Toussaint L'Ouverture, François-Dominique (ca. 1743–1803)

Trelawney Town Maroons

Tubman, Harriet (ca. 1820–1913)

Turner, Nat (1800–1831)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Underground Railroad

U.S. Colored Troops

U.S. Constitution (1789)

Valdés, Gabriel de la Concepción (1809–1844)

Van Buren, Martin (1782–1862)

Varela y Morales, Félix (1788–1853)

Vaux, Roberts (1786–1836)

Veney, Bethany (ca. 1815–?)

Vermont Constitution (1777)

Vesey, Denmark (ca. 1767–1822)

Virginia Slavery Debate (1831–1832)

Von Scholten, Peter (1784–1854)

Wade, Benjamin Franklin (1800–1878)

Walker's Appeal (1829)

Ward, Samuel Ringgold (1817–1866)

Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915)

Washington, Bushrod (1762–1829)

Webb, Richard Davis (1805–1872)

Wedderburn, Robert (ca. 1762–?)

Wedgwood Cameos

Weekly Anglo-African Magazine, The

Weld, Theodore Dwight (1803–1895)

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of (1769–1852)

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1862–1931)

Wesley, John (1703–1791)

West Africa, Abolition in

Wheatley, Phillis (ca. 1753–1784)

Whitfield, James Monroe (1822–1871)

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)

Whitting, William (1788–1862)

Wilberforce, William (1759–1833)

Williams, Peter, Jr. (1786–1840)

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

Wilson, Harriet E. (ca. 1820s–1863)

Wilson, Hiram (1803–1864)

Women's Rights and the Abolitionist Movement

Woolman, John (1720–1772)

World Anti-Slavery Convention (1840)

World Anti-Slavery Convention (1843)

Wright, Elizur (1804–1885)

Wright, Frances (“Fanny”; 1795–1852)

Wright, Henry Clarke (1797–1870)

Wright, Theodore Sedgwick (1797–1847)

Yearsley, Ann (1752–1806)

Zembola, Zamba (ca. 1780–?)

Zong Case (1781)