RISE OF ABOLITIONISM 1
Rev. John Rankin and Rev. John D. Paxton 10
Benjamin Lundy 11
William Lloyd Garrison 15
Miss Prudence Crandall and the Canterbury School 39
The Black Law of Connecticut 52
Arthur Tappan 57
Charles C. Burleigh 62
Miss Crandall’s Trial 66
House set on Fire 70
Mr. Garrison’s Mission to England.--New York Mobs 72
The Convention at Philadelphia 79
Lucretia Mott 91
Mrs. L. Maria Child 97
Eruption of Lane Seminary 102
George Thompson, M. P., LL. D. 108
His First Year in America 115
ANTISLAVERY CONFLICT 126
Reign of Terror 131
Walker’s Appeal 133
The Clergy and the Quakers 144
The Quakers 147
The Reign of Terror continued 150
Francis Jackson 157
Riot at Utica, N. Y.--Gerrit Smith 162
Dr. Channing 170
His Address on Slavery 177
The Gag-Law 185
The Gag-Law.--Second Interview 194
Hon. James G. Birney 203
John Quincy Adams 211
The Alton Tragedy 221
Woman Question.--Misses Grimké 230
“The Pastoral Letter” and “The Clerical Appeal” 238
Dr. Charles Follen 248
John G. Whittier and the Antislavery Poets 259
Prejudice against Color 266
A Negro’s Love of Liberty 278
Distinguished Colored Men 285
David Ruggles, Lewis Hayden, and William C. Nell 285
James Forten 286
Robert Purvis 288
William Wells Brown 289
Charles Lenox Remond 289
Rev. J. W. Loguen 290
Frederick Douglass 292
The Underground Railroad 296
George Latimer 305
The Annexation of Texas 313
Abolitionists in Central New York.--Gerrit Smith 321
Conduct of the Clergy and Churches 329
Unitarian and Universalist Ministers and Churches 333
Unitarians 335
The Fugitive Slave Law 345
Daniel Webster 348
The Unitarians and their Ministers 366
The Rescue of Jerry 373
New Persecutions 389
Riot in Syracuse 391