The slave's cause: a history of abolition

Part I. The first wave. Prophets without honor ; Revolutionary antislavery in Black and White ; The long northern emancipation ; The Anglo-American abolition movement ; Black abolitionists in the slaveholding republic ; The neglected period of antislavery

Part II. The second wave. Interracial immediatism ; Abolition emergent ; The woman question ; The Black man's burden ; The abolitionist international ; Slave resistance ; Fugitive slave abolitionism ; The politics of abolition ; Revolutionary abolitionism ; Abolition war

Epilogue: The abolitionist origins of American democracy.