- Abolition of Slavery Timeline
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Timelines tracing abolition in specific countries, abolition of the trade in slaves and abolition throughout empires.
- Abolitionism
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A movement in Western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves.
- American Anti-Slavery Society
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An abolitionist society (1833-1870) founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
- American Jacobins
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?
- John Brown Archive - Index
Resource Type: Article Writings of John Brown (1800-1859).
- Class War in the Confederacy
Why Free State of Jones Matters Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Free State of Jones may well be the most politically important film about the civil war and its aftermath to appear in a quarter century. Free State of Jones is a proper antidote to identitarian thinking, which has mystified popular understandings of the past, and how we approach political action in the present. In contrast to the prevailing view among so many nowadays that racism has always been and continues to be the main barrier to any progressive left politics, this film reminds us of a more complex history, where anti-slavery politics, Radical Republicanism and mass action created the short-lived progress of Reconstruction.
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways. Archaeologists are learning more about their free communities.
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Story of how the American Civil War upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended.
- I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 The archaeological discovery in Toronto of the remains of a house belonging to former slaves, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, key figures in the Underground Railroad.
- Karl Marx and the War Against Slavery
Black History and the Class Struggle Resource Type: Article Published: 1990 Alexander discusses Marx and Engels's views on the Civil War, the role of the First International in the struggle to overthrow black chattel slavery, and why the Marxist program of international working-class revolution is the key for black freedom and working-class emancipation.
- The Liberator Files
Selections from The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison's Abolitionist Newspaper Resource Type: Website The Liberator was a Boston-based Abolitionist newspaper, published by William Lloyd Garrison from 1831 to 1865.
- Lincoln: A Review
Civil War, Not Compromise, Smashed Slavery Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 LincolnSteven Spielbergs new movie reduces the abolition of slavery to so many parliamentary maneuvers.
- Lincoln, Abraham
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
- The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A biography of John Brown.
- My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Risking their own freedom, many African Canadians returned to the United States to participate in the Civil War and fight for the rights and liberty for all.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea Resource Type: Book Published: 2006
- 150 Years Since the Emancipation Proclamation
Finish the Civil War! Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The Emancipation Proclamation was a pledge, a promise. It only freed slaves in areas that were not yet controlled by Union armies, true enough. But in that sense it was like the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which didnt make any of the colonies freeit took a victorious war to free the colonies from British rule. The Emancipation Proclamation bound the defense of the Union to the destruction of slavery.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
- Seeds of Fire - January 1
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- The Slave Narratives
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography Resource Type: Website Interviews with former slaves. Nearly all of the information presented here came from the WPA collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, in addition to the 232 boxes of unprocessed material and county histories.
- Song of the Free
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A song written in 1860 about a man fleeing slavery in Tennessee by escaping to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
- Underground Railroad
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.
- An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
- The War of Northern Aggression
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
- Wilberforce, William
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. (1759-1833).
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