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81	The Acoustics of Abolition: Recovering the Evangelical Anti–Slave Trade Discourse Through Late-Eighteenth-Century Sermons, Hymns, and Prayers Gilman, Daniel January 2013 (has links) This thesis explores the late-eighteenth-century movement to end Britain’s transatlantic slave trade through recovering one of the major discourses in favour of abolition, namely that of the evangelical Anglicans. This important intellectual milieu has often been ignored in academia and is discovered through examining the sermons, hymns, and prayers of three influential leaders in this movement: Member of Parliament William Wilberforce, pastor and hymn writer John Newton, and pastor and professor Charles Simeon. Their oral texts reveal that at the heart of their discourse lies the doctrine of Atonement. On this foundation these abolitionists primarily built a vocabulary not of human rights, but of public duty. This duty was both to care for the destitute as individuals and to protect their nation as a whole because they believed that God was the defender of the enslaved and that he would bring providential judgement on those nations that ignored their plight. For the British evangelicals, abolishing the slave trade was not merely a means to avoid impending judgement, but also part of a broader project to prepare the way for Jesus’s imminent return through advancing the work of reconciliation between humankind and God as they believed themselves to be confronting evil in all of its forms. By reconfiguring the evangelical abolitionist arguments within their religious framework and social contexts, this thesis helps overcome the dissonance that separates our world from theirs and makes accessible the eighteenth-century abolitionist discourse of a campaign that continues to resonate with human rights activists and scholars of social change in the twenty-first-century. William Wilberforce Abolition Human rights Slave Trade Charles Simeon John Newton Evangelicalism Nineteenth Century England Eighteenth Century England Slavery History Social Change Abolitionists Antislavery Theology Antislavery movements Anglicanism Gospel Atonement Providentialism Clapham Sect Evangelical Anglicans Eschatology Wilberforce Great Awakening John Wesley Anti-Slave Trade Act to Abolish the Slave Trade Amazing Grace Sermons Prayers Hymns History of sermons Church British History Roger Anstey Ford K. Brown Boyd Hilton
82	Sentimental spirits: saving the soul while seizing the heart and swaying the mind Unknown Date (has links) During the nineteenth century, African American women like Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote wrote narratives of their spiritual conversions. Through their efforts and the efforts of others like them, spiritual autobiographies became not only evangelical tools but also a means of shaping African American culture and American society in general. While some black women were working to claim power for their gender and race by writing spiritual narratives, other women, both black and white, were working with sentimental literature to achieve similar goals. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015 / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection African American aesthetics Antislavery movements in literature Emotions in literature Spirituality in literature
83	The role of Quakerism in the Indiana women's suffrage movement, 1851-1885 : towards a more perfect freedom for all Hamilton, Eric L. January 2013 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / As white settlers and pioneers moved westward in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, some of the first to settle the Indiana territory, near the Ohio border, were members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). Many of these Quakers focused on social reforms, especially the anti-slavery movement, as they fled the slave-holding states like the Carolinas. Less discussed in Indiana’s history is the impact Quakerism also had in the movement for women’s rights. This case study of two of the founding members of the Indiana Woman’s Rights Association (later to be renamed the Indiana Woman’s Suffrage Association), illuminates the influences of Quakerism on women’s rights. Amanda M. Way (1828-1914) and Mary Frame (Myers) Thomas, M.D. (1816-1888) practiced skills and gained opportunities for organizing a grassroots movement through the Religious Society of Friends. They attained a strong sense of moral grounding, skills for conducting business meetings, and most importantly, developed a confidence in public speaking uncommon for women in the nineteenth century. Quakerism propelled Way and Thomas into action as they assumed early leadership roles in the women’s rights movement. As advocates for greater equality and freedom for women, Way and Thomas leveraged the skills learned from Quakerism into political opportunities, resource mobilization, and the ability to frame their arguments within other ideological contexts (such as temperance, anti-slavery, and education). Indiana Women Nineteenth Century Quaker Society of Friends Methodist Episcopal Church Woman's Suffrage Thomas, Mary Frame Myers, 1816-1888 Way, Amanda M., 1828-1914 Society of Friends -- Doctrines Woman's Rights Association of Indiana Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association
84	The Surprising Role of Legal Traditions in the Rise of Abolitionism in Great Britain’s Development Buchsbaum, Robert Michael, III January 2014 (has links) No description available. History World History Political Science Philosophy Legal Studies Law International Law European History European Studies Economics Black History Black Studies British and Irish Literature American Studies African American Studies African Americans African History African Literature African Studies Abolitionism Great Britain Parliamentary authority Slavery positive laws antislavery legal basis Slave Trade British soil 18th Century Slavery colonial opposition abolition Somerset law Anstey Quakers David Brion Davis Drescher Eric

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