This is the third video in a series on the Abolition Movement that was held at CUNY back in 2014. This panel looked at the development of anti-slavery politics and messaging in the two decades before the Civil War. Here is a brief description. The video is below the description.
SESSION TWO: ABOLITIONISM AND ANTISLAVERY POLITICS IN THE ANTEBELLUM ERA
Presiding: Amy Dru Stanley, Princeton University Center for Human Values/University of Chicago
The Slave Power Argument and Abolitionist Partisan Politics
Corey Brooks, York College of Pennsylvania
Like the Veiled Prophet of Khorossan: Salmon P. Chase and the Meaning of the Antislavery Platform
Joe Murphy, CUNY Graduate Center
Garrisonian Abolitionists and the Half-Way House of Antislavery Politics
Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
