This book, the latest in the Seminar Studies in History series, examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US, from the origins of the movement in the eigh

Newman traces the abolition movement's transformation from the American Revolution to 1830, showing how what began in late-18th-century Pennsylvania as an elite

"Compilation of writings by American Abolitionists from 1688-1865"--

This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement’s direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times t

“Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Fl