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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Abolitionist agitation in a world of slavery and pain
Abolitionism 101: Who, where, how, why?
Abolitionists and human rights
Abolitionism agitators and the triumph of reform
1 Early abolitionism: prophets versus profits
Slavery’s profits versus abolitionist prophets
Abolitionist Friends
Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution
Abolitionist activism after 1776
Abolition and the U.S. Constitution
Abolitionism at one hundred
2 The rise of black abolitionism and global antislavery struggles
Saint-Domingue
Black abolitionism in the United States
Slave trade abolition and the second slavery
Black protest redux
David Walker
Abolitionist media
3 The time is now: The rise of immediate abolition
Radical black protest and British abolitionists
Immediate abolition
Core abolitionists: African Americans and women
The grind: antislavery work
Bold activism
The anti-abolitionist wall in the North
4 The abolitionist crossroads
Abolitionist divisions: From the woman question to antislavery political parties
Abolitionist synergies
Global abolitionism in the 1840s
Racial divisions in transatlantic abolition
White radicals and confrontational abolitionism
The Underground Railroad
The North Star international
5 The abolitionist renaissance and the coming of the Civil War
The Fugitive Slave Law and the abolitionist renaissance
A literary renaissance
Black abolitionist renaissance
Abolitionist politics and the abolitionist constitution
The rise of the Republican Party
6 American emancipations: abolitionism in the Civil War Era
John Brown: abolitionist
Abolition, secession, and war
The first emancipation: runaway slaves and black Republicans
The wartime abolitionist push
Lincoln, emancipation, and abolitionism
Black troops and abolitionism
Final abolition: The Thirteenth Amendment
Epilogue: Abolitionist endings in the atlantic world … and new beginnings
Unfinished business: American abolition after the Civil War
Completing Atlantic abolition
The long civil rights movement or the eternal emancipation struggle?
References
Further reading
Index
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