Contents

• 1. The Abolitionists in American History. Who Were the Abolitionists? Changing Interpretations. New Directions
• 2. Early Abolitionism. American Slavery. African, African Americans, and Quakers. Abolitionism during the Revolutionary Era. Reaction and Rebellion
• 3. The Rise of Immediatism. Colonization. Black Abolitionist Violence. The Market Revolution and Evangelicalism. The Benevolent Empire. William Lloyd Garrison. The American Anti-Slavery Society. The Break-up of the AASS
• 4. Abolitionists and Gender. Women and Antislavery before the Formation of the AASS. Separate Spheres and Immediatism. Abolitionist Masculinity. Abolitionism and Feminism
• 5. Abolitionists and Race. The Antebellum Debate over Race. A Search for Common Humanity. Limits of Biracialism. Black Abolitionists and Race. Persistence of Biracialism
• 6. A More Aggressive Abolitionism. The Struggle against the Slave Power. The Role of Slave Unrest. The Liberty Party. Aims of the Liberty Party. The Underground Railroad. Political Abolitionists in the Border South. Antislavery Missionaries in the Upper South. The Southern Reaction
• 7. Violent Abolitionism. Nonviolent Abolitionism. The Impact of Slave Rebels. Defensive Violence. Violence on the Underground Railroad. Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Laws. The Impact of Kansas. Abolitionists Call for Slave Revolt
• 8. Abolitionists and Black Freedom. The Sectional Conflict during the 1850s. John Brown’s Raid. The Civil War Years. A Flawed Victory
• 9. Abolitionists and the Reform Tradition