Presents fourteen essays on the abolitionist movement in America addressing such issues as Puritan and Quaker condemnation of slavery, emancipation and the Constitution, the Nat Turner slave rebellion, Lincoln's role, and more.
Content Note
Introduction :; Free at last! --; 1.; Abolitionist voices in colonial America --; A Puritan magistrate condemns slavery /; Samuel Sewall --; The Quaker critique of American slavery /; Dwight Lowell Dumond --; A Virginian lobbies the Virginia legislature to end the slave trade /; Arthur Lee --; A Frenchman's view of American slavery /; J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur --; 2.; Abolitionists of the early American republic --; Abolition and the American Revolution /; Merton L. Dillon --; Abolitionists at the Constitutional Convention /; Catherine Drinker Bowen --; A founding father's critique of slavery /; Benjamin Franklin --; A plan for the abolition of slavery /; Fernando Fairfax --; A call for abolition by the First American Antislavery Society /; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race --; 3.; The formation of a national abolitionist movement --; Slavery violates the will of God /; David Walker --; William Lloyd Garrison commences publication of the Liberator /; Henry Mayer --; Nat Turner's slave rebellion /; Nat Turner --; A woman's role in the abolitionist movement /; Angelina Grimké --; Slaves must agitate to gain their freedom /; Henry Highland Garnet --; A sermon on slavery /; Harriet Beecher Stowe --; 4.; A war for abolition or union? --; Abolition must be the main goal of the Civil War /; Frederick Douglas --; The goal of the war : abolish slavery or preserve the union? /; Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln --; Lincoln moves toward emancipation /; John Hope Franklin --; The Emancipation Proclamation /; Abraham Lincoln --; Extolling Lincoln's emancipation decree /; Harriet Beecher Stowe --; 5.; From emancipation to civil rights --; Voting rights for the freedmen /; Frederick Douglass --; The emergence of Black politics during Reconstruction /; Eric Foner --; The Civil Rights Act of 1866 /; U.S. Congress --; The failure of reconstruction /; Chester J. Wynne --; Chronology.