American Anti-Slavery Almanac

Original cover for the 1843 edition, compiled by Lydia Maria Child.

The American Anti-Slavery Almanac was published yearly from 1836 to 1843 by the American Anti-Slavery Society, as one of the Society's efforts to raise awareness of the realities of slavery in nineteenth century America.[1] The yearly almanac compiled calendars and astronomical data with anti-slavery literature, art, and advertisements.[2] in a small, neat pamphlet. For instance, the 1843 edition included works from authors such as William Lloyd Garrison and Thomas Moore as well as accounts of recent slave rebellions and quotes from political speeches supporting the abolition of slavery.[3] The almanac did not call for uprising or violence, but rather served as a means to spread the word about the anti-slavery cause.[4][5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ "The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838". The Public Domain Review. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  2. ^ "The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1837". AAS Catalog Record. 1837. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  3. ^ Child, Lydia Maria (1843). American Anti-Slavery Almanac. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society.
  4. ^ "American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839, pp. 13, 15. | The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition". glc.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  5. ^ Goddu, Teresa A. (2020). Selling Anti-Slavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 32, 50.
  6. ^ "Anti-Slavery Almanacs". Anti-Slavery Almanacs. University of Virginia.
  7. ^ Goddu, Teresa A. “The Antislavery Almanac and the Discourse of Numeracy.” Book History, vol. 12, 2009, pp. 129–55. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40930542. Accessed 22 Jun. 2022.
  8. ^ Goddu, Teresa (July 28, 2020). "Circulating the Facts of Slavery". Lapham's Quarterly. Retrieved June 21, 2022.

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