Background
Wendell Phillips was born on 29 November 1811, into a wealthy, aristocratic Boston family.
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Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom
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The Lesson Of The Hour: Wendell Phillips On Abolition & Strategy
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The Abolitionists were revolutionaries, willing to tear up the Southern economy and society by the roots, wreck Northern commerce, and disrupt the Union irretrievably. They renounced all traditional politics. They openly hoped for the defeat of their own country in the Mexican War. They preached and practiced racial equality. They fought for the equality of women. They understood the need to break up the North in order to reconstitute it without slavery. Although William Lloyd Garrison was the founder of the movement and remains the most widely known of the Abolitionists, Wendell Philliops was the real leader. This volume is the only collection of his work generally available. It includes six speeches charting a revolutionary course for abolition, edited and with an introduction by Noel Ignatiev, establishing their historical context. "This collection of Wendell Phillips's speeches brings back to light one of the magnificent rhetoricians of the abolition movement. Noel Ignatiev's introduction makes a compelling case for treating Phillips as the 'real leader' of 19th century American radicalism, and the orator's words as a guide to an alternative society." David W Blight
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The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact; Or Extracts from the Madison Papers, Etc: Selected By Wendell Phillips (Classic Reprint)
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Every one knows that the Madison Papers contain a Report, from the pen of James Madison, of the Debates in the Old Congress of the Confederation, and in the Convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. We have extracted from them, in these pages, all the Debates on those clauses of the Constitution which relate to slavery. To these we have added all that is found, on the same topic, in the Debates of the several State Conventions which ratified the Constitution :together with so much of the speech of Luther Martin before the Legislature of Maryland, and of the Federalist, as relate to our subject; with some extracts, also, from the Debates of the first Federal Congress on slavery. These are all printed without alteration, except that, in some instances, we have inserted in brackets, after the name of a speaker, the name of the State from which he came. The notes and italics are those of the original, but the editor has added a note on page 11, and two notes on page 52, which are marked as his, and we have taken the liberty of printfhg in capitals one sentiment of Rufus King s, -and two of James Madison sa distinction which the importance of the statements seemed to demand otherwise we have reprinted exactly from the originals. These extracts develop most clearly all the details of that com promise, which was made between freedom and slavery, in 1787; granting to the slaveholder distinct privileges and protection for his slave property, in return for certain commercial concessions on his part toward the North. They prove also that the nation at large were fully aware of this bargain at the time, and entered into it willingly and with open eyes. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.<
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The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement
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Is there...any conflict between that Higher Law and the Constitution? In 1853, Wendell Phillips addresses the American Anti-Slavery Society. He explains why he embraces the theory and his stance on abolitionism. He further endorses the anti-slavery movement and its importance in assuring America's Democracy.
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Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips was American abolitionist, social reformer, advocate for Native Americans, orator and attorney.
Education
Gifted, handsome, and brilliant, Wendell Phillips excelled in his studies at Harvard, where he graduated in 1831, and in the study of law, which he undertook with the great Joseph Story.
Career
Phillips was admitted to the bar in 1834 and opened an office in Boston. In 1835, from his office window, he saw William Lloyd Garrison being dragged through the street by a mob, an event that changed his attitude toward slavery.
Phillips's meeting with Ann Terry Greene, an active worker in the Boston Female Antislavery Society, increased his interest in the abolition movement.
Phillips enlisted in the cause at a meeting on Dec. 8, 1837, to protest the death of antislavery editor Elijah Lovejoy in Illinois. After the attorney general of Massachusetts condoned the Illinois mob, Phillips sprang to the platform: his eloquent defense of Lovejoy catapulted him into the ranks of abolitionist leaders.
Breaking with his family and friends and relinquishing his law practice, he joined Garrison and became, next to Garrison, New England's best-known abolitionist.
Like Garrison, Phillips attacked what he believed to be the "proslavery" Constitution, rejected political action, and ultimately demanded the division of the Union if slavery was not immediately abolished.
During the early Civil War, Phillips censured Abraham Lincoln's reluctance to free the slaves, calling him "a first-rate second-rate man" whose "milk-livered administration" conducted the war "with the purpose of saving slavery. " He welcomed the Emancipation Proclamation but violently opposed Lincoln's reelection in 1864, and in 1865 he resisted Garrison's attempts to terminate the American Antislavery Society.
Phillips maintained that the African Americans' freedom would not be achieved until they possessed the ballot and full civil and social rights.
Garrison lost, and Phillips remained president of the society until 1870.
Phillips's other causes included prohibition, women's rights, prison reform, greenbacks, an 8-hour day, and Labor unions. He helped organize the Labor Reform Convention and the Prohibition party in Massachusetts, and both nominated him for governor in 1870.
Phillips remained popular on the lyceum circuit, speaking sometimes 60 times a year and earning up to $15, 000 annually. He died on 7 February 1884.
Achievements
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Wendell Phillips became the antislavery movement's most powerful orator and, after the Civil War, the chief proponent of full civil rights for freed slaves.
The Wendell Phillips Award, established in 1896, is bestowed annually upon a member of Tufts University's senior class. The Wendell Phillips Prize at Harvard University is awarded to the best orator in the sophomore class. The main building of the College of the Pacific at the University of the Pacific is named the Wendell Phillips Center.
In 1904, the Chicago Public Schools opened Wendell Phillips High School in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago in Phillips' honor.
In July 1915, a monument was erected in Boston Public Garden to commemorate Phillips. The Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis was named after Wendell Phillips.
Works
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The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact; Or Extracts from the Madison Papers, Etc: Selected By Wendell Phillips (Classic Reprint)
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The Lesson Of The Hour: Wendell Phillips On Abolition & Strategy
(The Abolitionists were revolutionaries, willing to tear u...)
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The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement
(Is there...any conflict between that Higher Law and the C...)
- Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom
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The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact; Or Extracts from the Madison Papers, Etc: Selected By Wendell Phillips (Classic Reprint)
Politics
A revolutionary idealist, Wendell Phillips envisioned an American society "with no rich men and no poor men in it, all mingling in the same society . .. all opportunities equal, nobody so proud as to stand aloof, nobody so humble as to be shut out". His political involvement, however, and his increasing radicalism, which led him to advocate "the overthrow of the whole profit-making system . .. , the abolition of the privileged classes . .. , and the present system of finance", alienated some of his friends and reduced his effectiveness as a reform leader.
Views
Quotations: "my wife made an out-and-out abolitionist of me, and always preceded me in the adoption of various causes I have advocated".
Membership
The Boston Vigilance Committee, the National Woman's Rights Central Committee, the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Personality
Wendell Phillips was a persuasive and elegant speaker. He could be so denunciatory that he was several times nearly mobbed.
Connections
Phillips's married Ann Terry Greene on 12 October 1837.
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She was an active worker in the Boston Female Antislavery Society.
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Born
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Died
February 7, 1884 (aged 73) -
Resting place
The Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts, United States -
Nationality
American
Official Titles
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Governor