Abstract
This paper discusses the impact of the abolitionist movement on American history. In particular, the writer discusses the influence of the movement in ending slavery and affecting other forms of social change. The paper describes abolitionism initially as a resistance movement among slaves. The role of whites, the Church and women in the abolitionist movement is also discussed.

Outline
Abstract
Introduction
The Abolition Movement
Social Changes
Equal Rights for Women
Racial Amity
Constitutional Reforms
Conclusion
References

From the Paper
"The abolitionist movement was active in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. From a purely a black resistance movement against their masters in the 16th century, the abolitionist movement gained strength and found active involvement from the white community during the nineteenth century. Among the various reasons, the active intervention of the church and the motives of freedom that characterized the American revolution, had a strong bearing in the development of the abolition movement. Gradually, social changes began to creep in, at first in the northern states and much later in the southern states. Ever since the American revolution, the nation underwent a gradual social shift, which changed a hierarchical society that promoted slave trade and slave labor to its present state of the land of freedom and equality for all. Let us briefly study the abolition movement in context of its impact in achieving this transformation."

Tags:slavery, abolitionists, racism, women's, suffrage, abolition

Abstract
This paper discusses the role of American women in the abolitionist movement. It explores the key players, their contributions and how they influenced their male counterparts. It expands on the ways that female abolitionists challenged notions of separate male and female spheres. The author also mentions the way that immediatism led to feminism.

From the Paper
"Abolitionist Movement American women had a significant impact on the abolitionist movement. Female abolitionists in fact became the leaders of the nation's first feminist movement and were instrumental in organizing the ..."

Tags:abolition, suffrage, feminism, immediatism, Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad

Abstract
This paper will seek to reveal the ideas of Henry David Thoreau, and the philosophy of Transcendetal thought. By showing his support for the Abolitionist Movement of his time, we can see how he saw contradictions in American government on slavery.

Abstract
The paper begins with a description of the abolitionist movement. The role of white women in the movement is then discussed, including motivations for involvement, such as empathy with others considered second-class citizens, and personal relationships with slaves.

From the Paper
"During the 1800's when the anti-slave movement began the main champions for the ending of slavery other than slaves themselves were white women. White women sympathized and even helped slaves; one notable example was the Underground Railroad, where some white women risked their homes and possibly even their lives to help slaves escape to the North. Some white women stood side by side in full public view with slaves proudly demonstrating their support for the anti slavery movement. On the surface it would seem that white women and slaves would have very little if anything at all in common. However, such an assumption would be far from the truth. The abolitionist movement was about human suffering and human rights, the quest for justice, liberty, equality and freedom resounded within the hearts and minds of women who silently longed to be free themselves. While it was whites that enslaved Blacks, it was primarily white men who involved themselves in the business of buying and selling slaves, it was white men who owned the property and the land that the slaves toiled on day and night. At the same time, white women had few if any rights. White women felt as if the same shackles that bound the slaves bound them as well. The words orated by slaves who spoke of the yearning to be free also struck a cord among women. Women begin to take issue with slavery and later as history revealed women began to fight for freedom for themselves. It was the above-mentioned reasons that women were so attracted to the anti slavery movement, and pursued the cause with a vengeance."

Tags:black, inferiority, discrimination, equality, oppressor, Constitution, Chapman, Garrison, Philips, Kelly

Abstract
The paper describes how Angelina Grimke, together with her sister Sarah Grimke, attracted both negative and positive attention through her pamphlets, newspaper articles, speeches and letters on the abolishment of slavery. The paper then relates that Grimke's historical significance is two fold; Angelina Grimke impacted the abolitionist movement but she can also be identified as an early founder of today's feminist movement.

From the Paper
"Contemporary feminists in the United States can trace their roots back, in part, to the early abolitionist movement of the 1830's. In pre-civil war society it was not socially acceptable for women to speak out on contentious social issues in public. A few women, while advocating the abolitionist cause, found themselves in roles, which can be identified as one of the origins of today's feminist movement. While speaking out against slavery, some of these women found themselves in situations whereby they were forced to break societal norms. One of these early mavericks was a young woman by the name of Angeline E. Grimke."

Tags:feminism

Abstract
These essays examine the basis of class identity in Rochester in the 1830's; compares women's abolitionist efforts that were similar to other feminine involvement in reform; and analyzes the defining characteristics of slavery in the United States.

Tags:shopkeeper's, millenium

Abstract
This paper describes how Sojourner Truth worked not only to free women but also to free her people that had been bound by slavery before then, as she was. The author points out that her self-educated views illustrated the foundation of the movement with her simple and clearly thought-out speeches. The paper states that Truth was one of the most important elements of the women's movement of her time and carried the responsibility of the Black female voice throughout her lifetime.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Her Life
The Women's Movement and Truth
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The basis for the women breaking support with each other was a statement made by Stanton during one of her public speaking engagements. It was at that time that Stanton vowed she would not vote for Blacks having the right to vote as long as women were not allowed to vote. Black women throughout the movement took issue with the one sided support. They believed that if they were supporting the women's movement then the white women suffragists should also support the Black movement, because in their mind oppression was oppression and it should all be fought against."

Tags:stanton, self-educated, oppression, slave

Abstract
This paper discusses the causes of the abolitionist movement in America and the influence of William Lloyd Garrison and the African colonization movement.

From the Paper
"Abolitionism took center stage in American society during the reform movement for two primary reasons. First, many prominent individuals in the North, along with Quakers and other religious groups, saw the practice as inhumane and immoral. Second, Americans in the North saw slavery as an unfair economic advantage in the South. It was difficult for the North to compete with the South in terms of labor when the South's labor forces were predominantly slave labor and working for free. In the South, the economy was predicated upon and..."

Tags:abolitionism, William Lloyd Garrison, African colonization, reform movement

Abstract
The paper looks at Otto J. Scott's "The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement" where Scott explores the origin, meaning and consequence of modern terrorism through a discussion of the radicalism of the early abolitionist movement. The paper asserts that Scott's personal agenda is evident throughout the book, and he therefore can not be established as a credible author. The paper concludes, however, that in general he would recommend this book for its entertaining and disturbing analysis into the minds of John Brown and his six co-conspirators.

From the Paper
"Scott is concerned in this book with the radicalism of the early abolitionist movement; he explores the origin, meaning and consequence of modern terrorism. The book follows the story of the "Secret Six" the six wealth individuals who funded and encouraged Brown in his murders and plans for revolution. These six individuals were all well respected members of society, Thomas Higginson, Samuel Howe, Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith, Franklin Sanborn and George Luther Stearns. These individuals not only encouraged Brown to commit his acts but actively collected money to fun him. They were able to raise over a period of three years, enough money for Brown to assemble a strong artillery staple needed for his revolution."

Tags:Brown, terrorism, violence, revolution, slavery

Abstract
This paper explores the interrelationships between Frederick Douglass' life and the abolition movement. In particular, the paper focuses on Douglass' affiliation with William Lloyd Garrison and his followers and discusses the significance of this affiliation for the abolitionist movement.

From the Paper
"William Lloyd Garrison was, like Douglass, a towering figure in the fight to abolish slavery. Just as Douglass' attendance at a speech of Garrison's changed his life, Garrison's attendance at a speech of Douglass' influenced the course of the abolitionist movement. At the time, Douglass was a travelling speaker for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (Foner 27). His job was to travel around Massachusetts giving speeches about his life as a slave in order to raise awareness of the evils of slavery. Garrison was astute in recognizing that Douglass' potential was great. Although Garrison himself was a renowned orator, he could not, as a white man, give a first hand account of the life of a slave. Rather, he most often talked of the immoral nature of slavery, and that it should be abolished on moral grounds. Douglass, however, was a riveting speaker whose accounts of his trials as a slave drew large crowds. He was thus an asset to the abolitionist cause."

Tags:institution, slave, abolished, freedom, basic, human, rights, anti-slavery, society