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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Puritans and Slavery -- 2. Black Abolitionist Writers in the Age of Revolution -- 3. Black Petitioning and Organized Abolitionism in Revolutionary Massachusetts -- 4. Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade -- 5. Massachusetts Blacks and the Growth of the Northern Antislavery Movement -- 6. Black Emigration and Abolition in the Early Republic -- 7. Abolitionism and the Politics of Slavery in Early Antebellum Massachusetts -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The years between America's founding and the cusp of the Civil War are often overlooked in discussions of America's struggle over slavery. The conflagration that nearly destroyed the country did not ignite quickly, but was the culmination of a long-smoldering debate that saw significant developments in those intervening decades. In particular, the period from 1829 to 1838 witnessed the growth of the Abolitionist movement, begun by determined visionaries bent on bringing the evils of slavery to the forefront of America's consciousness and ending a glaring injustice. Attacked by their opponents

The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle serves as an inspiring example that even the most deeply rooted social wrongs can be corrected. This valuable reference work details the history of antislavery, abolition, and emancipation to illustrate the various forms of these forces and the courses they followed in the bitterly contested struggle against the institution of slavery, affording readers the most current compendium of the diverse scholarship of this important historical topic. Ge

This article will treat the antislavery careers of Joshua R. Giddings and Salmon P. Chase in three parts. The first part will show that they were exposed to evangelical religion early in their lives and that their religious lives continued to develop throughout their childhoods and young adulthoods. The second part will show what experiences inspired each to become antislavery activists. And the third part will show how religion remained the cornerstones of both of their fights against slavery while working within the American political system. Both themes of this essay—the importance of the Ohio society and environment in fostering and enabling their antislavery careers, and how both of them merged and embodied two distinct parts of the antislavery movement, the religiously inspired abolitionism and the belief that the American political system could be used to effectively fight slavery—will be developed through all three parts.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1. The Heritage of the Revolution -- Notes -- 2. Slavery and Republican Values -- Notes -- 3. Morality and Law -- Notes -- 4. Morality and Utility -- Notes -- 5. Principle and Party -- Notes -- 6. Whigs and Democrats -- Notes -- 7. The Limits of Politics -- Notes -- 8. Slavery in Its Property Aspect -- Notes -- 9. The True Interests of the Freedmen -- Notes -- 10. A Spirit of Magnanimity -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D-F -- G-H -- I-L -- M-P -- Q-S -- T-W.

No taint of compromise : varieties of antislavery leadership -- A self-sharpening plough : Alvan Stewart's challenge to slavery -- To mitigate the suffering of our countrymen : John Greenleaf Whittier, abolitionist poet -- Black men have no rights which white men are bound to respect : Charles Langston and the drive for equality -- The barbarism of slavery : Owen Lovejoy and the congressional assault on slavery -- Freemen to the rescue : Sherman M. Booth and the Fugitive Slave Act -- Free men, free soil, and free homes : Jane Swisshelm's search -- My triumph had no taint of compromise : George Washington Julian, free soiler-republican -- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude : David Wilmont and the containment of slavery -- The plight of slavery will cover the land : Benjamin and Edward Wade, brothers in antislavery politics -- Quite a female politician : Jessie Benton Frémont and the antislavery movement -- Crusaders in antislavery politics : a shared commitment

Extension -- A perennial institution -- Expanding slavery -- Extension and tension -- Crisis -- Border skirmishes -- Age of the American Revolution, 1770s-1820s -- Franco-American Revolutions, 1780s-1820s -- Latin American Revolutions, 1810s-1820s -- Abolitionism without revolution: Great Britain, 1770s-1820s -- Contraction -- British emancipation -- From colonial emancipation to global abolition -- The end of slavery in Anglo-America -- Abolishing New World slavery: Latin America -- Emancipation in the Old World, 1880s-1920s -- Reversion -- Reversion in Europe -- Cycles actual and counterfactual.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Policy of Noninterference -- 2 Negotiating Abolition in the Indian Ocean World -- 3 Redefining Slavery and Servitude in the Straits -- 4 The Politics of Abolition in the Straits -- 5 Tolerance vs. Emancipation: Abolition in Malacca -- 6 A Convenient Compromise -- 7 An Illicit Trade to Penang and Singapore -- 8 The Wild, Womanless East Indies -- Conclusion: In the Wake of Abolition -- Bibliography -- Index.

[First paragraph]Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874. CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT-NOWARA. Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. xv + 239 pp. (Cloth US$ 50.00, Paper US$ 22.95)Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. FREDERICK COOPER, THOMAS C. HOLT & REBECCA J. SCOTT. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 198 pp. (Cloth US$ 34.95, Paper US$ 15.95)From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise andFall of Atlantic Slavery. SEYMOUR DRESCHER. New York: New York University Press, 1999. xxv + 454 pp. (Cloth US$ 45.00)Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor. STANLEY L. ENGERMAN (ed.). Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. vi + 350 pp. (Cloth US$ 55.00)These four books explore antislavery movements in the Atlantic world, and consider some of the consequences of abolition in postemancipation societies. They are immensely rich studies which engage one of the liveliest areas of enquiry in modern historiography - the transition from slavery to freedom in New World societies - and which represent U.S. historical scholarship at its finest. Each falls into a different category of academic publication.

We analyze how communications networks and social institutions influenced the growth of the antislavery movement in the U.S. from 1790 to 1840. Communications networks fueled by print media transmitted news about the movement to the public and so helped mobilize a broad base of support. Among social institutions, churches were especially supportive because their emphasis on morality and community was conducive to antislavery activism. Our analysis focuses on the founding of antislavery societies, the formal organizations that underpinned this movement, and makes three contributions to our understanding of social movement organizations in general and antislavery societies in particular. First, we show that the impact of mass media was strong as far back as the early nineteenth century and that the growth of magazines spurred antislavery society formation. Second, we demonstrate that theology, specifically an orientation toward this world or heaven, determined whether religious resources were available to antislavery organizations. This-worldly religions supported abolition organizing, while other-worldly religions undermined it. Third, we resolve an important causal ambiguity in debates about antislavery by showing that the development of the media was the cause, not merely a consequence of or companion to growth of antislavery organizations.