Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism.
Introduction: The Radical Tradition of Abolition
Chapter 1. Prophets Without Honor
Chapter 2. Revolutionary Antislavery in Black and White
Chapter 3. The Long Northern Emancipation
Chapter 4. The Anglo-American Abolition Movement
Chapter 5. Black Abolitionists in the Slaveholding Republic
Chapter 6. The Neglected Period of Antislavery
Chapter 7. Interracial Immediatism
Chapter 10. The Black Man’s Burden
Chapter 11. The Abolitionist International
Chapter 13. Fugitive Slave Abolitionism
Chapter 14. The Politics of Abolition
Chapter 15. Revolutionary Abolitionism
Epilogue: The Abolitionist Origins of American Democracy