HIST 625: Corridor to Revolutions Research Resources

Meetings and activism before fugitive slave crisis, held in Faneuil Hall 

Radical abolitionist movement

Radical abolitionists vs. anti abolitionists:

One example among clergy at Old South Church, represented by different ministers--Jacob  Merrill Manning (new light) staunch anti abolitionist  and George Washington Blagdon (old light)--radical abolitionist  (Mass Historical Society has sermons)

Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act (Anthony Burns)

Boston Abolitionists, 1831-1865: Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law, Massachusetts Historical Society

The Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831-1865), Digital Commonwealth

Barker, Gordon S. The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America. Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2013.

Bosco, Carla. “Harvard University and the Fugitive Slave Act.” The New England Quarterly 79, no. 2 (June 1, 2006): 227–247.

Grodzins, Dean. "'Constitution or No Constitution, Law or No Law': The Boston Vigilance Committees, 1841-1861." In Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion, edited by Matthew Mason, Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.

Von Frank, Albert J. The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998.