SEMINAR STUDIES IN HISTORY
General Editors: Clive Emsley & Gordon Martel
The effort to abolish slavery produced the Atlantic world's great reform movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This book focuses on the American abolitionists who struggled against slavery and advocated equal rights for African Americans in the United States. Blacks, whites, men and women, southern slaves and northern agitators became participants in the conflict between North and South that led to the Civil War in 1861 and general emancipation in 1865. Some of these activists advocated non-violence, while others - including slave rebels - engaged in antislavery violence.
This provocative account provides a brief general history of the movement to abolish slavery, told through
# numerous excerpts from abolitionist writings
# a chapter on abolitionists and the origins of the women's rights movement
# an extensive Glossary of terms and a Who's Who guide to key figures
The complex history of the American antislavery movement is unravelled and explained through the story of its contentious and dedicated activists.
STANLEY HARROLD is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and author of 'The Abolitionists and the South'.

Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and author of The Abolitionists and the South.

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The Abolitionists in American History; Part 2 Analysis; Chapter 2 Early Abolitionism; Chapter 3 The Rise of Immediatism; Chapter 4 Abolitionists and Gender; Chapter 5 Abolitionists and Race; Chapter 6 A More Aggressive Abolitionism; Chapter 7 Violent Abolitionism; Chapter 8 Abolitionists and Black Freedom; Part 3 Assessment; Chapter 9 Abolitionists and the Reform Tradition; Part 4 Documents; Chapter 10 Document 1 John Woolman Warns Slaveholders, 1762; Chapter 11 Document 2 Boston Slaves Petition Foe Feeedom, 1773; Chapter 12 Document 3 A Black Abolitionist Calls on Congress to Take Action Against Slavery, 1797; Chapter 13 Document 4 David Walker Calls on African Americans to Seek Freedom, 1829; Chapter 14 Document 5 William Lloyd Gaeeisom Begins the Liberator, 1831; Chapter 15 Document 6 Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833; Chapter 16 Document 7 Lydia Maria Child on the Impact of Abolitionism on the South, 1833; Chapter 17 Document 8 Angelina Grimke Appeals to White Women of the South on Behalf of Emancipation, 1836; Chapter 18 Document 9 Elijah P. Lovejoy Advocates Defensive Violence, 1837; Chapter 19 Document 10 Gerrit Smith Calls on Slaves to Escape and on Abolitionists to Help Them, 1842; Chapter 20 Document 11 Henry Highland Garnet Calls on Slaves to Challenge Their Masters, 1843; Chapter 21 Document 12 Cassius M. Clay on the Sinfulness of Slavery, 1845; Chapter 22 Document 13 Gamaliel Bailey Introduces His National Era to a Southern White Audience, 1847; Chapter 23 Document 14 Frederick Douglass Comments on the First Women's Rights Convention, 1848; Chapter 24 Document 15 Sojourner Truth on Women's Rights, 1851; Chapter 25 Document 16 Franklim B. Sanborn Presents John Brown's Violent Commitment to Equal Rights, 1857-59; Chapter 26 Document 17 Wendell Phillips Reflects on the Election of Abraham Lincoln, 1860; Chapter 27 Document 18 Frederick Douglass Urges Black Men to Enlist in a Union War for Emancipation, 1863;