Bibliography
DIXON, CHRIS. Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997). Focuses on eight abolitionist couples, including the Garrisons and the Stantons, and explores the relationship between their abolitionism and their marriages.
HARROLD, STANLEY. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861 (1995). An account of the least known, and arguably the most courageous, of the abolitionists.
———. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004). Argues that by the early 1840s, abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, were advocating slave rebellion.
JEFFREY, JULIE ROY. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998). Explores ways that ordinary women, many living in small towns and on farms, took part in the abolitionist movement.
KRADITOR, AILEEN S. Means and Ends in American Abolitionism (1968). Sympathetic assessment of supposed fanaticism of Garrison and other radical abolitionists.
MAYER, HENRY. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (1998). Evocative account of Garrison’s passion for reform by a writer who was a devoted activist during the 1960s.
MCCARTHY, TIMOTHY PATRICK, AND JOHN STAUFFER, EDITORS. The Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (2006). A collection of essays demonstrating the wide-ranging backgrounds of the abolitionists.
MERRILL, WALTER M., AND LOUIS RUCHAMES, EDITORS. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison (1971–1981). Well-edited multi-volume collection with many rich and informative letters.
RICHARDS, LEONARD L. “Gentlemen of Property and Standing”: Anti-Abolitionist Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970).Description and analysis of northern hostility to abolitionists.
THOMAS, JOHN L. The Liberator (1963). Prize-winning biography of Garrison.
WALTERS, RONALD G. The Antislavery Appeal (1976). Discusses the character of the abolitionist supporters.
DIXON, CHRIS. Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997). Focuses on eight abolitionist couples, including the Garrisons and the Stantons, and explores the relationship between their abolitionism and their marriages.
HARROLD, STANLEY. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861 (1995). An account of the least known, and arguably the most courageous, of the abolitionists.
———. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004). Argues that by the early 1840s, abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, were advocating slave rebellion.
JEFFREY, JULIE ROY. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998). Explores ways that ordinary women, many living in small towns and on farms, took part in the abolitionist movement.
KRADITOR, AILEEN S. Means and Ends in American Abolitionism (1968). Sympathetic assessment of supposed fanaticism of Garrison and other radical abolitionists.
MAYER, HENRY. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (1998). Evocative account of Garrison’s passion for reform by a writer who was a devoted activist during the 1960s.
MCCARTHY, TIMOTHY PATRICK, AND JOHN STAUFFER, EDITORS. The Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (2006). A collection of essays demonstrating the wide-ranging backgrounds of the abolitionists.
MERRILL, WALTER M., AND LOUIS RUCHAMES, EDITORS. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison (1971–1981). Well-edited multi-volume collection with many rich and informative letters.
RICHARDS, LEONARD L. “Gentlemen of Property and Standing”: Anti-Abolitionist Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970).Description and analysis of northern hostility to abolitionists.
THOMAS, JOHN L. The Liberator (1963). Prize-winning biography of Garrison.
WALTERS, RONALD G. The Antislavery Appeal (1976). Discusses the character of the abolitionist supporters.
