Talks and Courses on Slavery and Abolitionism

The Atlantic Slave Trade and New World Slavery
(the Caribbean, Spanish Florida, Mexico, Central and South America)  (1 days)

Slavery and Abolitionism in the Colonial Period (3 classes)

•   Slavery in the Chesapeake and the First Slave Laws 
•   Slavery in the Northern States
•   Roger Williams & Rhode Island / The Quaker Abolitionists of Pennsylvania
•   Slavery in the Carolinas
•   Slave Rebellions in the Colonial Period

Slavery and Abolitionism in the Early Republic  (3 Classes)

•   Slavery and the American Revolution
•   Abolitionism and Gradual Emancipation in the North
•   Slavery and the U.S. Constitution and other Legalities
•   Slave Rebellions in the Early Republic  
•   Westward Expansion and the Missouri Crisis 

Slavery and Abolitionism in Era of Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1840  (3 Classes)

•   The Rise of "King Cotton" and the Northern Textile Industry
•   Radical Grassroots Abolitionism (Antebellum Reform Movements)
•   The Second Middle Passage
•   Florida's Middle Plantations and The Second Seminole War
•   The Suppression of Anti-Slavery Speech in the South.
•   The Last Slave Revolts

Slavery and Abolitionism, 1841-1850   (3 Classes)

•   Conscious Whigs and Free Soilers
•   The Annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War  
•   The Compromise of 1850 
•   The Underground Railroad
•   Society and Culture in the North and the South at Mid-Century

Slavery and Abolitionism, 1851-1859  (4 days)

•   The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and Associated Court Cases
•   1850s Abolitionist Literature: Frederick Douglass' auto biographies, Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Impending Crisis of the South
•   The Founding of the Republican Party 
•   The Kansas-Nebraska Act and "Bleeding Kansas"
•   Filibustering in the Caribbean and Central America 
•   The Lincoln-Douglass Debates
•   The Dred Scott Decision 
•   John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

 
Other Topics for a 1 - 3 hour Talk or class
  
Abraham Lincoln and Slavery
Frederik Douglass
Other Black Abolitionists
Women Abolitionists
Free Blacks in the North Before the Civil War
Free Blacks in the South Before the Civil War