A fresh synthesis of the abolitionist movement and ideas in the Anglo-American world.

• List of Illustrations


• Preface


• Ch. 1 First Freedoms: The Abolitionist Movement in Revolutionary America


• Ch. 2 The Rise of Black Abolitionism


• Ch. 3 Abolitionist Transformations, 1820s-1850s


• Ch. 4 The Abolitionist Movement in the Civil War Era


• Conclusion: Abolitionist Endings and Beginnings


• References


• Further Reading


• Index

Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, and Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. He is the former Edwin Wolf 2nd Director at The Library Company of Philadelphia.