Antislavery political writings, 1833-1860: a reader

I. Slavery and freedom

The patriarchal institution ... (1860) / Lydia Maria Child

Lecture on slavery, no. 1 (1850) / Frederick Douglass

Selections from Slavery (1836) / William E. Channing

II. Immediate emancipation

Declaration of sentiments ... (1833) / American Anti-Slavery Society

Selections from Lectures on slavery and its remedy (1834) / Amos A. Phelps

III. Moral suasion and politics

An address to the abolitionists of Massachusetts ... (1838) / Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

A letter on the political obligation of abolitionists ... (1839) / James G. Birney

Talk about political party (1842) / Lydia Maria Child

IV. The Liberty party

Lecture showing the necessity for a Liberty Party ... (1844) / Arnold Buffum

Address of the Macedon Convention (1847) / William Goodell

V. Slavery and the Constitution

Slavery and the Constitution (1849) / William I. Bowditch

The Constitution of the United States : is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery? (1860) / Frederick Douglass

VI. Free-soil and fugitive slaves

The two altars ; or, two pictures in one (1851) / Harriet Beecher Stowe

Speech on our present anti-slavery duties (1850) / Charles Sumner

VII. Impending crisis

Moral responsibility of statesmen (1854) / Joshua R. Giddings

What is my duty as an anti-slavery voter? and Fremont and Dayton (1856) / Frederick Douglass

House divided speech (1858) / Abraham Lincoln

VIII. Disunion and revolution

Address to the slaves of the United States of America (1843) / Henry Highland Garnet

No compromise with slavery (1854) / William Lloyd Garrison

No rights, no duties : or, slaveholders, as such, have no rights ; slaves, as such, owe no duties (1860) / Henry C. Wright

A plan for the abolition of slavery (1858) / Lysander Spooner.