Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Abolitionist transformations
  • Republican strategists: the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
  • Deferential petitioners: the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in state and federal government, 1790-1830
  • Creating free spaces: Blacks and abolitionist activism in Pennsylvania courts, 1780s-1830s
  • An appeal to the heart: the Black protest tradition and the coming of immediatism
  • From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, from colonization to immediatism: race and the overhaul of American abolitionism
  • The new abolitionist imperative: mass action strategies
  • A whole lot of shoe leather: agents and the impact of grassroots organizing in Massachusetts during the 1830s
  • The struggle continued
  • Appendix one. Letters from Maryland slaveholders to Judge William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, regarding fugitive slaves
  • Appendix two. Maps
  • Maps 1A-D. Agent travels in Massachusetts
  • Map 2. Liberator subscriptions in Massachusetts, 1830-1840
  • Notes.