Slavery and sin : the cultural background / Who was an abolitionist? / Who defends the abolitionist? / Orange Scott : the Methodist evangelist as revolutionary / The persistence of Wendell Phillips / Abolition's different drummer : Frederick Douglass / The emancipation of the Negro abolitionist / A brief for equality : the abolitionist reply to the racist myth, 1860-1865 / "Iconoclasm has had its day" : abolitionists and freedmen in South Carolina / The abolitionist critique of the United States Constitution / Antislavery and utopia / The psychology of commitment : the constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society / "A sacred animosity" : abolitionism in Canada / The British and American abolitionists compared / Ambiguities in the antislavery crusade of the Republican party / The Northern response to slavery / Abolitionists, freedom-riders, and the tactics of agitation / David Brion Davis -- Larry Gara -- Fawn M. Brodie -- Donald G. Mathews -- Irving H. Bartlett -- Benjamin Quarles -- Leon F. Litwack -- James M. McPherson -- Willie Lee Rose -- Staughton Lynd -- John L. Thomas -- Silvan S. Tomkins -- Robin W. Winks -- Howard R. Temperley -- Robert F. Durden -- Martin Duberman -- Howard Zinn.
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United States.--Politics and government, 1849-1877