Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Abolitionist agitation in a world of slavery and pain

1 Early abolitionism: Prophets versus profits

2 The rise of black abolitionism and global antislavery struggles

3 The time is now: The rise of immediate abolition

4 The abolitionist crossroads

5 The abolitionist renaissance and the coming of the Civil War

6 American emancipations: Abolitionism in the Civil War era

Epilogue: Abolitionist endings in the Atlantic world … and new beginnings

References

Further reading

Index