The Abolitionist Movement

The Abolitionist Movement. Produced by the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. Featuring:
* Christy Coleman, Chief Executive Officer, The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar
* Christa Dierksheide, Historian, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
* Gene Hickok, The Montpelier Foundation Board of Directors
* Barbara Krauthamer, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
* Warren Milteer, Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Tech
* Lynn Uzzell, Scholar in Residence, Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier
* Nicholas Wood, Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate in Early American History, Yale University
This video was originally produced as part of “Slavery and the Constitution“ online course produced by the Center for the Constitution. For more information on online courses by the Center for the Constitution, please direct your browser to the following address/URL: montpelier.org/courses

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One of my favorite historians/scholars Barbara Krauthamer.

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Watching this cause of my teacher btw

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Same.

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Same

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yall must be white lol the truth hurts huh?

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You have an awesome teacher

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I am also.

[@ozark8944]

What about Cassius Marcellus Clay the Kentucky abolitionist ? The Abolitionist that Muhammad Ali was name after.

[@b4ttlec0w30]

I just learned about this guy. What an absolute gentleman. So far ahead of his time and hard as fuck too. Dude was a boss with a knife!

[@givetheymeantake]

Sad that ali thought it was an evil man's name and is now known and named after an evil man

[@gothamknight2700]

David Wood of Acts17Apologetics did a video on that very topic.
It was most definitely an eye opener because Muhammed Ali changed his name from an American Abolitionist into 2 Islamic people that owned and hated African slaves based on the color of their skin.

[@bigploppa154]

@@b4ttlec0w30Lot of fascinating figures in abolitionist history. James McCune Smith being one of them, he proposed the idea that respect could not be earned by a previously enslaved population by simply being granted their freedom, he deemed violence necessary in response to the institution of slavery.
an unrelated fact about abolitionist history that I have always found fascinating is the fact that Germans and Poles were considered Black for a small period of time in Haiti. This being because in early Haitian history, Black blood was required for citizenship, as a means of preventing English, Spanish, or Frenchmen from becoming citizens. The small minority of Poles and Germans on the island had never historically oppressed or harmed the Black or Native populations of Haiti, therefore they were deemed Black and granted citizenship

[@REDtheblazian]

I'm trying to figure out why equal rights took so long after slavery was abolished, i understand it would've been the hardest in the south due to Jim Crow laws but were Abolitionists purely against the idea of slavery or did they believe in equal rights, if its the 2nd then why did it take them so long?

[@gendagoon1828]

Am I the only one who realized she called Sojourner Truth a man...

[@anaissainza]

And Harriet Jacobs. I think she used the word "men" as a "neutral" word without realizing it. :)

[@coreylee9342]

Abolitionists were christians that held strongly the belief that christians cannot hold christians in bondage, the slaves were being converted to christianity, forcing the abolitionist movement to free christian slaves in bondage. Its all about the religion and increasing its numbers for dominance in America, not about freeing africans in bondage they did not like the africans the non converted were offered trips back to africa, but loved the christians they were given christian welcome.

[@malizlato]

what about Oglethorpe?

[@piorionis]

The *WHAT*

[@HappySlaveOfChrist]

4:02 - 4:34 Is that true? In Frederick Douglas's preface to "My Bondage My Freedom" he said that he thought he should not speak or write the book because he was too close to slavery, being a slave himself once. He said his thought was that his perspective was too biased. (and was convinced to write the book by others)

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very good video

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what did they risk fighting for slavery

[@John-mf6ky]

Their freedom, life, and property?

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It is a big mess... look up the rise and stagnation of early free black men etc.

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Elisha Tyson!

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God Bless the Republicans for getting the Democrats to give up slavery.

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You believe this?

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@@SandfordSmythe why don't you trot on down and read Grant's memoirs. Try to cleanse your brain of socialist propaganda.

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The teacher who teaches using no pictures is a criminal.