Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition

852 Pages·2008·7.96 MB·English

Encyclopedia of
Antislavery and Abolition,
Volumes 1 & 2
Edited by
Peter Hinks
John McKivigan
Greenwood Press
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
ANTISLAVERY AND
ABOLITION
Volume 1, A–I
Edited by
Peter Hinks and
John McKivigan
Assistant Editor
R. Owen Williams
Greenwood Milestones in African American History
GREENWOOD PRESS
Westport, Connecticut (cid:2) London
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Encyclopedia of antislavery and abolition : Greenwood milestones in African
American history / edited by Peter Hinks and John McKivigan ; R. Owen
Williams, assistant editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–313–33142–1 (set : alk. paper) — ISBN 0–313–33143–X (v. 1 : alk.
paper) — ISBN 0–313–33144–8 (v. 2 : alk. paper) 1. Antislavery
movements—Encyclopedias. 2. Slaves—Emancipation—Encyclopedias. 3.
Slavery—Encyclopedias. I. Hinks, Peter P. II. McKivigan, John R., 1949– III.
Williams, R. Owen.
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To the memory of our friend and teacher,
John W. Blassingame

CONTENTS
ListofEntries ix
Preface xiii
Introduction xix
GuidetoRelatedTopics xxix
ChronologyofAntislavery,Abolition,andEmancipation xxxv
EncyclopediaofAntislaveryandAbolition 1
SelectedBibliography 765
Index 771
AbouttheEditorsandContributors 791

LIST OF ENTRIES
Abolitionist Women Associates of Dr. Thomas Bray British Guiana and Caribbean
Adams, John Quincy (1767– (1723–1777) Emancipation
1848) Atlantic Slave Trade and British British Slavery, Abolition of
Africa, Antislavery in Abolition Brougham, Henry Peter (1778–
Africa, Emancipation in 1868)
Baartman,Sara(c.1790–1815)
Africa Squadron Brussels Act (1890)
Bacon, Leonard (1802–1881)
African American Communities Brussels Conference (1889–
Bailey, Gamaliel (1807–1859)
Allen, Richard (1760–1831) 1890)
Baptist War (1831–1832)
Ambar, Malik (c. 1550–1626) Buddhism and Antislavery
Barbary Wars and White
American and Foreign Burned-Over District
American Enslavement in
Anti-Slavery Society Burns, Anthony (d. 1862)
North Africa
(AFASS) Burritt, Elihu (1810–1879)
Barnes, Albert (1798–1871)
American Anti-Slavery Society Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–
Behn, Aphra (1637/40–1689)
(AASS) 1845)
Benezet, Anthony (1713–1784)
American Colonization Society
Benin, Restrictions on Slave Canada, Antislavery in
American Convention of
Trade in Canning, George
Abolition Societies
Berlin Act (1885) (1770–1827)
American Jews and Antislavery
Berlin Africa Conference Cape of Good Hope,
American Missionary
(1884–1885) Antislavery and
Association (AMA)
Bible and Slavery Emancipation at
Amistad
Birney, James Gillespie (1792– Chase, Salmon Portland (1808–
Antislavery Evangelical
1857) 1873)
Protestantism
Bleeding Kansas Child, Lydia Maria (1802–1880)
Antislavery Journalism in the
(1855–1857) China and Antislavery
United States and Great
Bodin, Jean (c. 1530–1596) Chulalongkorn, King of Siam
Britain
Bol(cid:2)ıvar, Simo(cid:2)n (1783–1830) (1853–1910)
Anti-Slavery Society (1787)
Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769– Church of Jesus Christ of
Anti-Slavery Society (1909)
1821) Latter-Day Saints and
Antislavery Songs
Book of Exodus Antislavery
Apprenticeship
Boyer, Jean-Pierre (1776–1850) Cicero (106–43 B.C.E.)
Aptheker, Herbert (1915–2003)
Bright, John (1811–1889) Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846)
Arabia and Nineteenth-
Brissot de Warville, Jacques- Classical Greek Antislavery
and Twentieth-Century
Pierre (1754–1793) Classical Rome and Antislavery
Slavery
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Clay, Cassius Marcellus (1810–
Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.)
Society (BFASS) 1903)