Abolitionist Generation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| American Generations |
|
|---|---|
| Term | Period |
| Awakening Generation | 1701–1723 |
| First Great Awakening | 1727–1746 |
| Liberty Generation Republican Generation Compromise Generation |
1724–1741 1742–1766 1767–1791 |
| Second Great Awakening | 1790–1844 |
| Transcendentalist Generation Transcendental Generation Abolitionist Generation Gilded Generation Progressive Generation |
1789–1819 1792–1821 1819–1842 1822–1842 1843–1859 |
| Third Great Awakening | 1886–1908 |
| Missionary Generation Lost Generation Interbellum Generation G.I. Generation Greatest Generation |
1860–1882 1883–1900 1900–1910 1900–1924 1911–1924 |
| Jazz Age | 1929–1956 |
| Silent Generation Baby Boomers Beat Generation Generation Jones |
1925–1945 1946–1964 1948–1962 1954–1962 |
| Consciousness Revolution | 1964–1984 |
| Baby Busters Generation X MTV Generation |
1963–1983 1963–1978 1975–1984 |
| Culture Wars | 1980s–present |
| Boomerang Generation Generation Y Internet Generation New Silent Generation |
1984–1986 1979–1999 1985–1999 2000–2020 |
The Abolitionist Generation was the generation of Americans who were born between approximately 1819 to 1842. These individuals would, in their early years, see railroad construction begin in earnest; and in their later lives, would campaign against slavery; and would fight the United States Civil War.
This is the generation that followed the Transcendentalist Generation, and included in literature, a new generation of writers and poets like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson that were inspired by the Transcendentalists of the previous generation (such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau).
| Preceded by: Transcendentalist Generation c. 1789 – c. 1819 |
Abolitionist Generation 1819 – 1842 |
Succeeded by: Lost Generation c. 1883 – c. 1900 |
