Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Abolitionists and the Impending Crisis, 1859-1862

  • This chapter will address McKim’s travels to Virginia with Mary Brown, his pre-Civil War involvement with abolitionists, his shift from being an absolute pacifist to supporting secession to rid the nation of slavery, and his resignation from the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.

Chapter Three: Republicans and the Experiment of Freedom, 1862-1864

  • This chapter will focus on McKim’s time in Port Royal, his involvement in the Port Royal experiment, his rallying for black enlistment and troops, and his support of Lincoln’s re-election.

Chapter Four: Freedpeople and Reconciliation, 1864-1869

  • This final main chapter will address McKim’s emphasis on freedmen relief societies, his first publication of the Nation, and his focus on the desegregation of Philadelphia street cars.

Chapter Five: Conclusion

 

Introduction

Brown, Ira V. “Miller McKim and Pennsylvania Abolition.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies no. 1 (1963): 56-72. [JSTOR]

Cohen, William. “James Miller McKim: Pennsylvania Abolitionist.” Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968.

Cohen, William. “The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.” Unpublished Master’s Dissertation, Columbia University, 1960.

Cowan, Alison Leigh. “A Very Special Delivery.” New York Times Upfront. Apr. 19, 2010. [Ebscohost]

Dusinberre, William. “Abolitionism and the Fugitive Slave Question.” The Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. [JSTOR]

Dusinberre, William. “Conclusion.” Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. [JSTOR]

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher and Carla L. Peterson. “Chapter 4: ‘We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident:’ The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass’s Journalism.” Black Press. 2001. [Ebscohost]

Foner, Eric. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America’s Fugitive Slaves. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Jeffrey, Julie Roy. “Fugitives as Part of Abolitionist History.” Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. University of North Carolina Press, 2008. [JSTOR]

Kastor, Peter J. “‘Motives of Peculiar Urgency:’ Local Diplomacy in Louisiana, 1803-1821.” The William and Mary Quarterly 58. No. 4. Oct. 2001. 819-848. [JSTOR]

McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Pierson, Parke. “Parcel Post to Freedom.” America’s Civil War. May 1, 2009. [Ebscohost]

Pollak, Gustav. “The ‘Nation’ and Its Contributors.” Nation 101. No. 2610. Jul. 8, 1915. 57-61. [Ebscohost]

Rose, Willie Lee. “‘Iconoclasm Has Had Its Day:’ Abolitionists and Freedmen in South Carolina.” The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists, edited by Duberman Martin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. 178-206. [JSTOR]

Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Sinha, Manisha. “Editor’s Note: June 2018 Issue.” The Journal of the Civil War Era. May 22, 2018. [WEB]

 

Chapter 2: James Miller McKim and “the Impending Crisis”

Abrahamson, James L. The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. [Google Books]

Ashworth, John. The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. [Google Books]

Auman, William T. Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. [Google Books]

Brock, Peter. Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. [Google Books]

“The Burial of John Brown.” The Liberator. Dec 16, 1859. [Accessible Archives]

“The Burial of John Brown.” New York Daily Tribune. Dec 12, 1859, 6. [Library of Congress]

Channing, Steven A. Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974. [Google Books]

Cohen, William. “James Miller McKim: Pennsylvania Abolitionist.” Unpublished PhD Dissertation. Ann Arbor: Unpublished PhD Dissertation, 1968.

Cohen, William. “McKim, James Miller (14 November 1810-13 June 2074).” American National Biography, June 2017. [ANB]

Cumbler, John T. From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. [Google Books]

DeCaro Jr., Louis. John Brown Speaks: Letters and Statements from Charlestown. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. [Google Books]

Dew, Charles B. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2017. [Google Books]

Ewing, Elbert William Robinson. Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession. Richmond: J. L. Hill Company, 1904. [Google Books]

Foner, Eric. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.  New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. [Google Books]

Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. [Google Books]

“The Funeral of John Brown at North Elba.” Chicago Press and Tribune. December 15, 1859. [Library of Congress]

Goodheart, Adam. 1861: The Civil War Awakening. New York City: Vintage Books, 2012. [Google Books]

Harrold, Stanley. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015. [Google Books]

Helper, Hinton Rowan. Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South. New York: A. B. Burdick, 1860. [Google Books]

Hyde, Samuel C., Jr. The Enigmatic South: Toward Civil War and Its Legacies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. [Google Books]

“The ‘Impending Crisis.'” The New York Herald. December 12, 1859. [Library of Congress]

“John Brown’s Invasion.” New York Daily Tribune. December 6, 1859, 6. [Library of Congress]

Laughlin-Schultz, Bonnie. The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown’s Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism. Cornell University Press, 2013. [Google Books]

McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Oakes,  James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. [Google Books]

“Pennsylvania A.S. Society.” The Liberator. Nov 9, 1860. [Accessible Archives]

Proudfoot, Devon. “From Border Ruffian to Abolitionist Martyr: William Lloyd Garrison’s Changing Ideologies on John Brown and Antislavery.” Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University, 2013. [PDF]

Reynolds, Donald E. Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. [Google Books]

Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York City: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. [Google Books]

Rugemer, Edward B. “Slave Rebels and Abolitionists: The Black Atlantic and the Coming of the Civil War.” The Journal of the Civil War Era 2, no 2 (June 2012). [Google Books]

Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Stebbins, G.B. “Our Work Not Yet Done.” The Liberator. May 30, 1862. [Accessible Archives]

Stewart, James Brewer. Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. [Google Books]

Stewart, James Brewer and Eric Foner. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery. London: Macmillan, 1996. [Google Books]

Varon, Elizabeth R. Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. [Google Books]

Williams, James. “The Road to Harper’s Ferry: The Garrisonian Rejection of Nonviolence.” Kent: Kent State University, 2016. [PDF]

 

Chapter 3: McKim and the “Experiment of Freedom”

Bacon, Margaret Hope. “Lucy McKim Garrison Pioneer in Folk Music.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 54, no. 1 (1987): 1-16. [JSTOR]

Cruz, John. “From Testimonies to Artifacts.” Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. [JSTOR]

Cruz, John. “Sound Barriers and Sound Management.” Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. [JSTOR]

Epstein, Dana J. “Garrison, Lucy McKim (1842-1877).” American National Biography. June 16, 2017. [American National Biography]

Howard, Victor B. “The Election of 1864.” Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870. University Press of Kentucky, 1990. [JSTOR]

“Pay of Colored Troops.” The Liberator, Feb 12, 1864. [The Liberator Files]

Pinsker, Matthew, and Sarah Goldberg. “The Prince of Emancipation.” Google Arts & Culture. [WEB]

Rose, Willie Lee. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1964. [Google Books]

Roy, William G. “Music and Boundaries: Race and Folk.” Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. [JSTOR]

 

Chapter 4: McKim and the Reconstruction Effort

Dusinberre, William. “Democrats, Negroes, and Conscripts.” Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. [JSTOR]

Dusinberre, William. “Dissenters, Slaves, and Volunteers.” Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. [JSTOR]

“National Freedmen’s Association Formed.”  The Liberator, Sept 1, 1865. [The Liberator Files]

 

Conclusion