OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

“Opposing Slavery: The World of Antebellum Reform”
David Henkin, Department of History
University of California, Berkeley

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David Henkin link is Assistant Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. Educated at Yale and University of California Berkeley, his publications include: City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York, Columbia University Press, 1998.

Readings & Web Links
* Links active as of January 2004

David Walker's Appeal - from PBS Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931.html
The Confessions of Nat Turner - from PBS Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h500.html
William Lloyd Garrison - from PBS Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html
Anti-slavery Society - account published by Schoolnet UK
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantislavery.htm
Know Nothing Party & Nativism - brief explation from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing