Human Rights (journal)

{{short description|American 19th century abolitionist journal}}

{{distinguish|Harvard Human Rights Journal}}

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Human Rights was an abolitionist journal founded by Lewis Tappan.{{cite book|author=Mason I. Lowance|title=A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmMRZXzOXJ4C&pg=PA424|accessdate=21 April 2017|date=January 2003|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-00228-2|page=424}} The journal was first published in July 1835.{{cite journal|author=Ana Stevenson|title=The "Great Doctrine of Human Rights": Articulation and Authentication in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Antislavery and Women's Rights Movements |journal=Humanity |date=Winter 2017 |volume=8|issue=3|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/684768|accessdate=23 April 2020}} The last issue appeared in February 1839.{{cite news|title=American Anti-Slavery Society |url=https://www.amazon.com/American-Anti-Slavery-Society-Williams-R-G/dp/B01N2WJPNZ|accessdate=22 April 2020|work=Amazon}} It was published monthly by the American Anti Slavery Society.{{cite book|author=Stephen L. Vaughn|title=Encyclopedia of American Journalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6ySAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA517|accessdate=21 April 2017|date=11 December 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-88020-0|page=517}}