Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-184) and index.
Contents
Rewarded reform: morality and persistence in the antislavery movement -- Origins of the antislavery movement -- Slavery and freedom in the revolutionary era / Eric Foner -- The need to abolish slavery : from the American convention of delegates from Abolition Societies -- A plan for emancipation : from the American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery -- Antislavery in the early nineteenth century / Merton L. Dillon -- A burst of reform: the 1830s and 1840s -- Abolitionism and the age of reform / Louis Filler -- Declaration of sentiments of the American anti-slavery society / William Lloyd Garrison -- Religion and reform / John R. McKivigan and Mitchell Snay -- Antislavery tactics / Howard Zinn -- Martyrs and mob violence / Wendell Phillips -- Slave labor vs. free labor / Lydia Maria Child.
The nation erupts: the 1850s and 1860s -- Aggressive abolition / Stanley Harrold -- Sectionalism in the 1850s / Henry H. Simms -- John Brown was right / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Antislavery and the Republican Party / John B. Alley -- Civil War and Emancipation / Herbert Aptheker -- The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- At long last, Emancipation / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Abolitionist voices -- The end of the Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison -- A former slave recounts his escape / William Wells Brown -- On the fugitive slave law / J. W. Loguen -- Reunion with a former master / Frederick Douglass -- Slavery and the evils of war / Moncure Daniel Conway.
