HIST 625: Corridor to Revolutions Research Resources

Activist leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison

Radical abolitionists

Activist newspapers, The Liberator

Activist press:  John P. Jewet and Co. on Cornhill St. publisher of fiction and antislavery works, publisher of  HB Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. In 1854 Jewett and Co. opens bookstore at 117 Washington St., across from Water St.

Ticknor & Fields publishers

Anti-Slavery digital collection, Digital Commonwealth

Boston Abolitionists, 1831-1865, Massachusetts Historical Society

Dr. Irving H. Bartlett Collection: Boston Vigilance Committee Records

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

Berenson, Barbara F. Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014.

Berenson, Barbara F., and R. Marc. Kantrowitz. Walking Tours of Civil War Boston : Hub of Abolitionism. Boston, MA: Freedom Trail Foundation, 2011.

Hansen, Debra Gold. “The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and the Limits of Gender Politics.” In The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women’s Political Culture in Antebellum America, edited by Jean Fagan Yellen and John C. Van Horne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Jacobs, Donald M. Courage and Conscience: Black & White Abolitionists in Boston. Bloomington, IN: Published for the Boston Athenaeum by Indiana University Press, 1993.

Newman, Richard S. The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Chapters 5-7.

Parfait, Claire. The Publishing History of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852-2002. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2007.

Reynolds, David S. Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.