Primary Source Spotlight: Abolition

Abolition newspapers

• Anti-Slavery Bugle (weekly) New-Lisbon, Ohio 1845-1861
• The Examiner (weekly) Louisville, Kentucky 1847-1849

Primary source collections

• Abolition primary source set (American Memory collections)
• History of American Abolitionism 1861
• More abolition books & articles
• Songs Related to the Abolition of Slavery Library of Congress article
• Abolition sheet music
• Abolition images
• Abolition webcasts
• Abolition in D.C. primary source collections
• John Brown primary source collections
• Frederick Douglass primary source collections
• Elijah Lovejoy primary source collections
• Primary Source Spotlight: Slavery (U.S.)
• Visualizing Emancipation interactive map from University of Richmond & National Endowment for the Humanities
• Today in History: The Emancipation Proclamation

Teaching resources

• Learning from the Source: Close Reading in Service of a Cause primary source lesson
• Guided primary source analysis: Abolition frowned down
• Guided primary source analysis: Tree of Liberty primary source analysis activities