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Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In

The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring

American politics and society were transformed by the antislavery movement. But as Corey M. Brooks shows, it was the antislavery third parties not the Democrats

A fresh synthesis of the abolitionist movement and ideas in the Anglo-American world.