I need an article against slavery.....?

Question

For my American Studies class i need to find an article criticizing slavery and i cant find one anywhere

Answer 1

I take it you are interested in writings from the late 18th and early 19th century, first against the slave trade and then for abolition

I also assume, based on the class you named, that you are primarily interested in AMERICAN writings. So check out the following:

William Garrison's writings (including articles for The Liberator):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison#Works_online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liberator

American Anti-Slavery Society
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/18.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a3914

Sarah Grimke, "An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States"
http://antislavery.eserver.org/religious/grimkeepistle/

Collections of Anti-Slavery Literature
http://antislavery.eserver.org/tracts/
http://antislavery.eserver.org/treatises/

Other web sites with anti-slavery writings, new and old:
http://antislavery.eserver.org/contemporary/
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/
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Important BRITISH writers....
great web site -- site index:
http://www.brycchancarey.com/siteindex.htm
(includes list of articles on key anti-slavery activists... some of the articles link to specific writings)
Notice especially:
Olaudah Equiano -"The Case Against the Slave Trade"
http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/extract5.htm

Thomas Clarkson, "An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species" (1786)
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Book.php?recordID=0590

William Wilberforce
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=42041

(Note - an excellent movie,"Amazing Grace" --about the work of William Wilberforce-- is set for public release in March, in time to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the slave trade. It's web site has some other leads on the work and writings of these people.
http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/)

Answer 2

How about a "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King? Blows me away.

Answer 3

shouldn't your school have databases you can search. i remember at my high school, the school had subscriptions to at least 10 academic databases and you could search and download an article on practically any subject for free. ask your school librarian, or go to your school's website and search for the library's site. you can sometimes access it from there.

Answer 4

william garrison, any article re teh ku Klux Klan is good anti slavery, gettysburg address

Answer 5

Research the works of Fredrick Douglass.

Answer 6

look in any workplace, they have posters posted. thats basically anti-slavery laws for all of us