Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-238) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Abolitionist transformations -- Republican strategists : the Pennsylvania Abolition Society -- Deferential petitioners : the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in state and federal government, 1790-1830 -- Creating free spaces : blacks and abolitionist activism in Pennsylvania courts, 1780s-1830s -- An appeal to the heart : the black protest tradition and the coming of immediatism -- From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, from colonization to immediatism : race and the overhaul of American abolitionism -- The new abolitionist imperative : mass action strategies -- A whole lot of shoe leather : agents and the impact of grassroots organizing in Massachusetts during the 1830s -- The struggle continued -- Appendix one : Letters from Maryland slaveholders to Judge William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, regarding fugitive slaves -- Appendix two : Maps -- Maps 1A-D. Agent travels in Massachusetts -- Map 2. Liberator subscriptions in Massachusetts, 1830-1840 -- Notes.
