William Lloyd Garrison and the fight against slavery Book

	Foreword
	Preface
Pt. 1	Introduction: William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery	1
	"I Could Bring Them to Reason": Garrison in 1835 and 1863	1
	Beginning The Liberator	3
	From Colonization to "Immediate" Abolition	9
	Abolition, Politics, and Violent Means	13
	Slavery: The Historical Record	20
	Morality versus Politics: Strategies for Abolition	27
	Garrison's Punitive Style: The Language of Abolition	37
	Garrison, Douglass, and Racial Prejudice	45
	Endings: Garrison in 1865 and After	52
Pt. 2	The Documents	59
1	Address to the American Colonization Society, July 4, 1829	61
	1831-1840: The First Decade of The Liberator: Arguments for Abolition
2	"To the Public," January 1, 1831	70
3	"Working Men," January 1, 1831	73
4	"Truisms," January 8, 1831	74
5	"Walker's Appeal," January 8, 1831	76
6	"Removal to Texas," January 22, 1831	78
7	"We Present Our Patrons ...," April 23, 1831	79
8	"The Insurrection," September 3, 1831	80
9	"Guilt of New-England," January 7, 1832	83
10	On the Constitution and the Union, December 29, 1832	87
11	"Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention, December 14, 1833"	90
12	The Progress of Antislavery, January 23, 1836	94
13	"Rights of Woman," January 12, 1838	97
14	"Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention," September 28, 1838	101
15	"Abolition at the Ballot-Box," June 28, 1839	106
	1841-1850: "No Union with Slaveholders!"
16	On Frederick Douglass, July 1, 1842	107
17	"Address to the Slaves of the United States," June 2, 1843	109
18	"The American Union," January 10, 1845	112
19	"American Colorphobia," June 11, 1847	115
20	Mob Attack on Douglass, August 20, 1847	118
21	The Death of President Polk, June 22, 1849	120
22	John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and the Compromise of 1850, March 15, 1850	121
	1851-1860: Decade of Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War
23	Review of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, March 26, 1852	127
24	Women's Rights, October 28, 1853	132
25	Uncle Tom's Cabin Reconsidered, December 23, 1853	134
26	The Bible and Women's Rights, January 12, 1855	140
27	Disunion, June 15, 1855	141
28	"The 'Infidelity' of Abolitionism," December 21, 1855	144
29	"Southern Degradation," September 19, 1856	146
30	Dred Scott and Disunion, March 12, 1858	148
31	"Depravity of the American Press," September 17, 1858	151
32	"The Tragedy at Harper's Ferry," October 28, 1859	153
33	John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance, December 16, 1859	156
34	Antislavery Progress, November 9, 1860	160
35	"Southern Desperation," November 16, 1860	162
	1861-1865: The Final Phase of The Liberator: Garrison and Lincoln
36	"The War - Its Cause and Cure," May 3, 1861	164
37	"Why a Prolonged War," January 30, 1863	168
38	Defense of Lincoln, May 20, 1864	171
39	"The Late Presidential Struggle," November 18, 1864	172
40	The Death of Slavery, February 10, 1865	175
41	"Valedictory: The Last Number of The Liberator," December 29, 1865	179
	App. Portraits	184
	App. A Garrison Chronology (1805-1879)	186
	App. Questions for Consideration	195
	App. Selected Bibliography	197
	Index	199