The American Abolitionists Book

	Introduction to the Series
	Note on Referencing System
	List of Abbreviations
	Publisher's Acknowledgements
	Authors' Acknowledgements
	Map
1	The Abolitionists in American History	3
	Who Were the Abolitionists?	4
	Changing Interpretations	5
	New Directions	7
2	Early Abolitionism	13
	American Slavery	13
	African, African Americans, and Quakers	16
	Abolitionism during the Revolutionary Era	18
	Reaction and Rebellion	21
3	The Rise of Immediatism	25
	Colonization	25
	Black Abolitionist Violence	26
	The Market Revolution and Evangelicalism	28
	The Benevolent Empire	30
	William Lloyd Garrison	31
	The American Anti-Slavery Society	32
	The Break-up of the AASS	35
4	Abolitionists and Gender	39
	Women and Antislavery before the Formation of the AASS	39
	Separate Spheres and Immediatism	41
	Abolitionist Masculinity	44
	Abolitionism and Feminism	46
5	Abolitionists and Race	51
	The Antebellum Debate over Race	51
	A Search for Common Humanity	53
	Limits of Biracialism	54
	Black Abolitionists and Race	56
	Persistence of Biracialism	59
6	A More Aggressive Abolitionism	61
	The Struggle against the Slave Power	62
	The Role of Slave Unrest	63
	The Liberty Party	64
	Aims of the Liberty Party	65
	The Underground Railroad	67
	Political Abolitionists in the Border South	69
	Antislavery Missionaries in the Upper South	70
	The Southern Reaction	71
7	Violent Abolitionism	73
	Nonviolent Abolitionism	74
	The Impact of Slave Rebels	75
	Defensive Violence	76
	Violence on the Underground Railroad	78
	Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Laws	79
	The Impact of Kansas	81
	Abolitionists Call for Slave Revolt	82
8	Abolitionists and Black Freedom	84
	The Sectional Conflict during the 1850s	84
	John Brown's Raid	87
	The Civil War Years	89
	A Flawed Victory	94
9	Abolitionists and the Reform Tradition	99
	Chronology	135
	Glossary	137
	Who's Who	140
	Bibliography	147
	Index	159