Books
Steven Mintz, Moralists & Modernizers:
America's Pre-Civil War Reformers.
An overview and interpretation of the major reforms of
the era, including abolition, temperance and women's rights.
Films
Amistad
Steven Spielberg's flawed recreation of the 1839 incident
in which kidnapped Africans overcame their captors and
were subsequently put on trial in the United States for
piracy. The film downplays the extent of racism in the
North and distorts the role of religion in motivating
antislavery.
Comprehensive reviews of this movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
Web Sites
Recommended Web Sites:
History Now: Abolition
http://www.historynow.org/09_2005/index.html
The quarterly online journal History Now
examines the role of religion, women, and African Americans
in the antebellum abolition movement.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel07.html
A succinct history of the role of religion in stimulating
organized benevolence.
Related Web Sites:
Abolition
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
This Library of Congress exhibit includes antislavery
petitions, songs, children’s magazines, and other
original sources documenting the struggle to abolish slavery.
American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass
http://www.cr.nps.gov/csd/exhibits/douglass/overview.htm
An online exhibit created by the National Park Service
featuring documents and artifacts at the Frederick Douglass
National Historic Site in Washington, D.C.
The Colonization Movement
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
This Library of Congress online exhibit includes primary
sources that document the history of the movement to transport
free blacks to Africa.
History of Woman’s Suffrage
http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/suffragehistory.html
This site provides information about the first women’s
Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, as
well as women’s struggle for the vote.
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