Classical American
Great Law of the Iroquois
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/iroquois.asp
Quakers
George Fox in America 1671-73
https://ccel.org/ccel/fox_g/autobio/autobio.xxiii.html
1688: Germantown Quakers Petition to End Slavery
http://www.meetinghouse.info/1688-petition-against-slavery.html
John Woolman’s Journal
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/woolman/journal.i.i.i.html
Friend Anthony Benezet
http://benezet.org/
Benjamin Lundy
Library ebook: The War in Texas : A Review of Facts and Circumstances, Showing That This Contest Is the Result of a Long Premeditated Crusade against the Government, Set on Foot by Slaveholders, Land Speculators, &c. : With the View of Re-Establishing, Extending, and Perpetuating the System of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Republic of Mexico. Printed for the author by Merrihew and Gunn (Philadelphia). 1836. Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and Anti-Slavery.
Higher Education
1833: Oberlin
A new age in higher ed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_College
Transcendentalism
1838: Ralph Waldo Emerson. “War.”
http://www.rwe.org/v-war/
1849: Henry David Thoreau. “Civil Disobedience.”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Abolition
1838: William Lloyd Garrison. “Declaration of Sentiments: Adopted by the Peace Convention, Held in Boston, September 18-20, 1838″
https://archive.org/details/DeclarationOfSentiments
Douglass
1852: Frederick Douglass. “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
-Five Ways Abolitionists Changed Higher Education
http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2014/11/five-ways-abolitionists-changed-american-higher-education/
1869: Frederick Douglass. “Frederick Douglass Describes The ‘Composite Nation.’”
In defense of Chinese Immigration
http://www.blackpast.org/1869-frederick-douglass-describes-composite-nation
-Asian Americans for Equality
http://www.aafe.org/who-we-are/our-history
Women’s Rights
1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al. “The Declaration of Sentiments,
Seneca Falls Conference, 1848″
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/senecafalls.asp
-Women’s Rights Movement, 1848 – 1920
http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/
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