Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

"These essays will change our understanding not only of abolitionism, but of American society itself." —Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

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 source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformer...