Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibition of the Slave Trade (1619-1808)


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Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the abolitionists' successful campaign to end the slave trade. - Summary by progressingamerica

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Preface 10:26 Read by Andrew Kennedy
Introduction 30:02 Read by Andrew Kennedy
Chapter 1: The Religious and Moral Movement, 1637 - 1808, section 1 29:31 Read by Andrew Kennedy
Chapter 1: The Religious and Moral Movement, 1637 - 1808, section 2 29:58 Read by Virginia Neville
Chapter 1: The Religious and Moral Movement, 1637 - 1808, section 3 24:48 Read by Virginia Neville
Chapter 2: The Philosophical Movement of the Revolutionary Period, 1761 - 1783, section 1 23:35 Read by progressingamerica
Chapter 2: The Philosophical Movement of the Revolutionary Period, 1761 - 1783, section 2 36:07 Read by progressingamerica
Chapter 3: The Political Movement in the Revolutionary Period, 1761 - 1783, section 1 34:22 Read by progressingamerica
Chapter 3: The Political Movement in the Revolutionary Period, 1761 - 1783, section 2 37:42 Read by progressingamerica
Chapter 4: Abolitionists and Abolition Societies, 1783 - 1808, section 1 33:18
Chapter 4: Abolitionists and Abolition Societies, 1783 - 1808, section 2 27:28
Chapter 5: Gradual Emancipation in the States, 1783 - 1808, section 1 27:03 Read by Colleen McMahon
Chapter 5: Gradual Emancipation in the States, 1783 - 1808, section 2 19:12 Read by Colleen McMahon
Chapter 6: The Victory over the Slave-Trade, 1783 - 1808, section 1 35:11 Read by Kerry Adams
Chapter 6: The Victory over the Slave-Trade, 1783 - 1808, section 2 25:03 Read by Kerry Adams
Chapter 7: Check to Anti-Slavery on the Territorial Question, 1783 - 1808 22:48 Read by Prasanth
Chapter 8: Anti-Slavery Literature after the Revolution, 1783 - 1808, section 1 44:30 Read by Lorenzo Chamberlin
Chapter 8: Anti-Slavery Literature after the Revolution, 1783 - 1808, section 2 31:41 Read by Sonrisa Jones