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American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists

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This website provides a list of individuals and organizations who worked to end slavery in the United States, as well as historic documentation on the anti-slavery and abolition movements in the US.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Abolitionists, Part One, Chapter 1

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Temperance movement | Definition, Leaders, Facts, & Significance

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Temperance movement, movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor. The earliest temperance organizations seem to have been those founded at Saratoga, New York, in 1808 and in Massachusetts in 1813.

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The Temperance Movement. The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence.

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Abolitionist were people who favored the abolition of slavery.And wanted it gone in the US.
They also built "Underground railroads" to help runaway slaves get to the north and be free.

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Temperance~ Temperance was the reform movement originating in the 1820s that sought to eliminate the consumption of alcohol. This was supposed to be an encouragement for young men that they needed to confess to their bad drinking habits and take the pledge not to drink. It was more of a problem for men because women didn't drink in public. Due to this, alcohol consumption had decreased to what it remains at today.

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Temperance Hymn Book And Minstrels A Collection Of 105 Hymns, Songs and Odes For Temperance Meetings And Festivals online book - Contents Page

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Frequent enquiries for a Temperance Hymn Book have led to this compilation. Wesley said years ago, it was a pity Satan should have all the best tunes. The same may as properly be said of songs, which have contributed much to intemperance.

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Elliot Oracle - Tarot Card Readings by Phone

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Temperance signifies balance, moderation, and slowing down. This card represents your inner "stress barometer" which notifies you when your mind and body are under too much strain. When Temperance appears it is time to give your body more of what it needs right now, in order to restore your equilibrium. The card encapsulates finding the right balance between two opposing forces, in order to restore harmony.

Does your body "act up" when you are stressed? Do you get strange sensations that make you worry you might have something seriously wrong with you? Do you listen to your inner needs when you are spread too thin, or do you "power" through it, depleting yourself further?

The angel on the Temperance card represents your higher self, which knows just how much of anything you can endure. The angel is pouring just the right amount of water from one cup, to replenish the other. This represents your need to replenish what has been depleted. The angel also has one foot on dry land, and the other foot in the stream. This symbolizes that although he is operating in the "real world" (the dry land), he still keep one foot in contact with what his inner self needs (the stream). The path behind him leads to a bright destination. If you follow the angel's example and look after your equilibrium, you will also find a healthier, happier future awaiting you.

We like to think our daily lives make so many demands on us, and we would take better care of ourselves if we just had the time. However, these are demands we expect from ourselves. Not wanting to disappoint others makes us jump through circles and hoops, to be Superman or Superwoman. All the while we slowly deplete ourselves to a point where we need rescuing! Temperance gently guides you to protect your own health and well being first. In that way you will have plenty to share with others. To restore your balance, what is your body signalling to you that it needs? More water? More rest? Some quiet time?

Today, wrap yourself in the angel's wings, and lovingly give your body what it needs. Do this and tomorrow will be golden.

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Temperance signifies balance, moderation, and slowing down. This card represents your inner "stress barometer" which notifies you when your mind and body are under too much strain. When Temperance appears it is time to give your body more of what it needs right now, in order to restore your equilibrium.

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Underground Railroad and American Civil War History Map

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Underground Railroad History, Underground Railroad Definition, Underground Railroad Map Routes, Underground Railroad Key Figures, Underground Railroad Results Details, Summary, Facts Essay, Essays

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The term ABOLITIONIST is almost universally understood to mean a white person living in the mid 1800s, who was a friend to Blacks and who believed in the freedom of all men. But this is a woefully naive misunderstanding of the term and the motives behind the so-called American anti-slavery movement. Contrary to popular notions, only a tiny, tiny minority of whites spoke up for the humanity of the Black man & woman, but white historians have amplified their often private letters and their insignificant proclamations to make them appear to represent an "abolitionist" sentiment that did not exist among the white populace.

One need only look at the very public words of the FATHER OF ABOLITIONISM, Abraham Lincoln, who in his first inaugural address, March 4, 1861, specifically reassured his southern brethren that:

I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them.

With this in mind, it is not surprising, then, that some abolitionist organizations would not admit Blacks to meetings, and that some members actually held Blacks as slaves! Only Black abolitionists, such as Lewis Hayden, his wife, Harriet; William C. Nell, Robert Morris, and Charles Lenox Remond, who believed abolition to be the Black man's fight, could be said to have wanted a true and authentic freedom for the Black race.

Consider this:

White laborers were "abolitionists" who wanted an end to slavery because having a skilled Black slave working without pay made it nearly impossible for them to find work that would pay any wage at all.

Many white abolitionists wanted to end slavery because they hated Blacks, and, like Lincoln, wanted them all shipped back to Africa in order to make America a completely white country.

Others, like Ben Franklin, cited the economic inefficiencies of the institution, and could not have cared less about its fundamental immorality.

Yet others desperately feared the mass exodus of white womanhood to the big, black, brawny bucks if the African remained in the hemisphere.

White Americans have invariably shown themselves to by bound more to the false doctrine of White Supremacy, than to the elusive concepts of "democracy," "freedom," or "equality." The Abolitionists were no different in this respect, and they did not hesitate in proclaiming their superiority over the Black race. During the tumultuous civil war era, the slavery issue had little to do with "slave or free." The issue was whether the slavery system was the best TACTIC in maintaining white rule over the Black race.

Some Abolitionists believed that the wanton cruelty associated with American slavery diminished the whites who practiced it. Other tactics, they thought, would maintain and enhance white rule and command Black labor without the social disruption caused by the "peculiar institution."

Deportation, economic and labor restrictions, controlled schooling, Christianization, legal and electoral barriers, KKK terrorization were all considered to be better tactics than slavery in maintaining racial dominance.

So to be "anti-slavery" or "abolitionist" in one's political philosophy in no way meant that one was for Black equality. Understanding this crucial distinction helps to put in context the ease in which Jim Crow, segregation, and discrimination was established immediately following the slavery era. The idea that Blacks would attain equality within an entrenched system of White Supremacy is simply part and parcel of American racial propaganda-yet another one of the many effective tactics of white racial control.

[For more on this and other TACTICS of racial control see the book HOW WHITE FOLKS GOT SO RICH, in ebook at Amazon.com: http://goo.gl/h4miFK]

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The term ABOLITIONIST is almost universally understood to mean a white person living in the mid 1800s, who was a friend to Blacks and who believed in the freedom of all men. But this is a woefully naive misunderstanding of the term and the motives behind the so-called American anti-slavery movement.