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Allison, Sarah Danielle.\u00a0 The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Columbia University Press, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aptheker, Herbert A.\u00a0\u00a0Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement<\/em>.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0Twayne, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arkin, Marc M.  “The Federalist Trope: Power and Passion in Abolitionist Rhetoric.”  Journal of American History<\/em> 88 (June 2001): 75-98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bennett, Michael.  Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature<\/em>. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brennan, Denis P.  “The Printer’s Stand: William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator.”  PhD dissertation, State University of New York-Albany, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brennan, Denis. The Making of an Abolitionist: William Lloyd Garrison\u2019s Path to Publishing <\/em>The Liberator.  <\/em>Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brewer, James S.  Wendell Phillips: Liberty’s Hero<\/em>.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, David. \u201cWilliam Lloyd Garrison, Transatlantic Abolitionism, and Colonization in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Revival of the Peculiar Solution?\u201d Slavery and Abolition<\/em> 33 (June 2012): 233\u2013250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cain, William E., ed., William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from the Liberator. <\/em>Boston: Bedford Books, 1994.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carwardine, Richard J.  Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crockett, Hasan.  \u201cThe Incendiary Pamphlet: David Walker\u2019s Appeal<\/em> in Georgia.\u201d  Journal of Negro History<\/em> 83:3 (Summer 2001): 305-318.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtis, Michael Kent.  “The Curious History of Attempts to Suppress Anti-Slavery Speech, Press, and Petition in 1835-1837.”  Northwestern University Law Review<\/em> 89 (Spring 1995): 785-870.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutter, Martha J.  The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852<\/em>.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delbanco, Andrew.  The Abolitionist Imagination<\/em>.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeLombard, Jeannine Marie.  Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dillon, Merton L.  Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist Editor<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dillon, Merton L.  The Abolitionists: The Growth of a Dissenting Minority<\/em>.  New York: W.W. Norton, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinius, Marcy J.  The Textual Effects of David Walker\u2019s Appeal: Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domke, David.  \u201cThe Press and \u2018Delusive Theories of Equality and Emancipation and Fraternity\u2019 in the Age of Emancipation.\u201d  Critical Studies in Mass Communication<\/em> 13:3 (September 1996): 228-250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duberman, Martin. The Antislavery Vanguard. <\/em>Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duerk, John A.  \u201cElijah P. Lovejoy: Anti- Catholic Abolitionist.\u201d  Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society <\/em>108:2 (Summer 2015): 103-121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dwyer, Erin Austin. \u201cThe Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press.\u201d Slavery & Abolition<\/em> 45, no. 1 (2024): 10\u201326.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellingwood, Ken.  First To Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery<\/em>.  New York: Pegasus Books, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faber, Doris.  I Will Be Heard: The Life of William Lloyd Garriso<\/em>n.  New York: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fanuzzi, Robert.  Abolition\u2019s Public Sphere<\/em>.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fee, Frank E., Jr.  \u201cTo No One More Indebted: Frederick Douglass and Julia Griffiths, 1849-63.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 37:1 (Spring 2011): 12-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filler, Louis.  The Crusade Against Slavery, 1830-1860<\/em>.  New York: Harper and Row, 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filler, Louis, ed.  Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom<\/em>.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher Fiskin, Shelley, and Carla L. Paterson.  \u201cWe Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident: The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass\u2019s Journalism,\u201d in Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays<\/em>, ed. Eric J. Sundquist. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabrial, Brian.  The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement<\/em>.  Charleston: University of South Carolina Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gill, John.  Tide Without Turning: Elijah Lovejoy and Freedom of the Press<\/em>.  Boston: Beacon Books, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilmore, Michael T.  The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glickman, Lawrence B.  \u201cBuy for the Sake of the Slave: Abolitionism and the Origins of American Consumer Activism.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em> 56:4 (December 2004): 889-912.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goddu, Teresa A.  \u201cThe Antislavery Almanac and the Discourse of Numeracy.\u201d Book History <\/em>12:1 (2009): 129-155.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goddu, Teresa A.  \u201cAnti-Slavery\u2019s Panoramic Perspective.\u201d  MELUS<\/em> 39:2 (Summer 2014): 12-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goddu, Teresa A.  Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gradert, Kenyon. \u201cA Paper Puritan of Puritans: The Liberator<\/em>\u2019s Protestant Spirit in the Antebellum Public Sphere.\u201d Journal of American Studies<\/em> 56:4 (2022): 589-612.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gronningsater, Sarah L. H.  The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrold, Stanley.  The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861<\/em>.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrold, Stanley.  The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves<\/em>.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hersh, Blanche Glassman.  The Slavery of Sex: Feminist Abolitionists in America<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hirshman, Linda.  The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation<\/em>.  New York: Mariner Books 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoganson, Cristin.  “Garrisonian Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Gender, 1850-1860.”  American Quarterly<\/em> 45 (December 1993): 558-595.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, David W.  “Freesoilers for God: Kansas Newspaper Editors and the Anti-Slavery Crusade.”  Kansas History<\/em> 2 (Summer 1979): 74-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kielbowicz, Richard B. \u201cThe Law and Mob Law in Attacks on Antislavery Newspapers, 1833\u20131860.\u201d Law & History Review<\/em> 24 (Fall 2006): 559\u2013599.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kraditor, Aileen S.  Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, <\/em>paperback edition.  Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1989.  Originally published in 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laurie, Bruce.  Beyond Garrison: Anti-Slavery and Social Reform<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leavell, Lori. \u201c\u2018Not Intended Exclusively for the Slave States: Antebellum Recirculation of David Walker\u2019s Appeal<\/em>.\u201d Callaloo<\/em> 38, no. 3 (2015): 679\u201395.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lerner, Gerda.  The Grimke Sisters From South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.  revised edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowance, Mason, ed.  Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader<\/em>.  New York: Penguin books, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayer, Henry.  All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery<\/em>.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCarthy, Timothy Patrick, and John Stauffer, eds.  Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism<\/em>.  New York: New Press, 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

McInerney, Daniel J.  “A State of Commerce: Market Power and Slave Power in Abolitionist Political Rhetoric.”  Civil War History<\/em> 37 (June 1991): 101-119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McInnis, Maurie D.  Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meer, Sarah. \u201cPublic and Personal Letters: Julia Griffiths and Frederick Douglass\u2019 Paper<\/em>.\u201d Slavery and Abolition<\/em> 33 (June 2012): 251\u2013264.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercieca, Jennifer Rose.  \u201cThe Culture of Honor: How Slaveholders Responded to the Abolitionist Mail Crisis of 1835.\u201d  Rhetoric and Public Affairs<\/em> 10:1 (Spring 2007): 51-76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merrill, Walter M.  Against Wind and Tide: A Biography of William Lloyd Garrison. <\/em>Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moland, Lydia.  Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson, Truman, ed.  Documents of Upheaval: Selections from William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, 1831-1865<\/em>.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newman, Richard S.  The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nye, Russel B.  Fettered Freedom: Civil Liberties and the Slavery Controversy, 1830-1860<\/em>.  East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1963. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osborn, Ronald. \u201cWilliam Lloyd Garrison and the United States Constitution: The Political Evolution of an American Radical.\u201d Journal of Law and Religion<\/em> 24:1 (2008\u20132009): 65\u201388.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ostrowski, Carl.  \u201cSlavery, Labor Reform, and Intertextuality in Antebellum Print Culture: The Slave Narrative and the City-Mysteries Novel.\u201d  African American Review<\/em> 40:3 (Fall 2006): 493-506.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page, Allison.  Media and the Affective Life of Slavery<\/em>.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page, Tyler G.  \u201cPublic Relations Tactics and Methods in Early 1800s America: An Examination of an American Anti-Slavery Movement.\u201d  Public Relations Review<\/em> 40:4 (November 2014): 684-691.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quarles, Benjamin.  Black Abolitionists<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rael, Patrick, ed.  African-American Activism Before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reilly, Bernard F., Jr., “The Art of the Antislavery Movement,” in Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston<\/em>, ed. Donald M. Jacobs.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reynolds, David S.  Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin and the Battle for America<\/em>.  New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, Leonard L.  “Gentlemen of Property and Standing”: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ripley, C. Peter, et al, eds.  The Black Abolitionist Papers<\/em>.  5 volumes.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985-1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Risley, Ford.  Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery. <\/em>Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rohrback, Augusta.  “Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Reexamining William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator<\/em>.” American Literature<\/em> 73 (December 2001): 727-755.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salerno, Beth A.  Sister Societies: Women’s Anti-Slavery Organizations in Antebellum America<\/em>.  Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savage, W. Sherman. \u201cAbolitionist Literature in the Mails. 1835-1836.\u201d The Journal of Negro History<\/em> 13, no. 2 (1928): 150\u2013184. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortell, Timothy.  \u201cThe Rhetoric of Black Abolitionism: An Exploratory Analysis of Antislavery Newspapers in New York State.\u201d  Social Science History<\/em> 28:1 (Spring 2004): 75-109.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon, Paul.  Lovejoy, Martyr to Freedom<\/em>.   St. Louis: Concordia, 1964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon, Paul.  Freedom\u2019s Champion: Elijah Lovejoy<\/em>.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stauffer, John.  The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race<\/em>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart, James B.  “The Aims and Impact of Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1840-1860.”  Civil War History<\/em> 15 (1969): 197-209.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart, James B.  Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery<\/em>.  Revised Edition.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.  (originally published in 1976)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart, James B., ed..  William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: History, Legacy, and Memory<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, Alice. \u201cSelling Abolitionism: The Commercial, Material, and Social World of the Boston Antislavery Fair, 1834\u20131858.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tharaud, Jerome. \u201cThe Evangelical Press, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Human Medium.\u201d Arizona Quarterly<\/em> 69:2 (Summer 2013): 25-54. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas, John L.  The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison, A Biography. <\/em>Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson, Ralph.  \u201cThe Liberty Bell<\/em> and Other Anti-Slavery Gift Books.\u201d  New England Quartlerly 7 (March 1934): 154-168.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volpe, Vernon L.  \u201cThe Anti-Abolitionist Campaign of 1840.\u201d Civil War History<\/em> 32:4 (December 1986): 325-339.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walters, Ronald G.  The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830.  <\/em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts, Liz.  \u201cLydia Marie Child: Editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1841-43.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 35:1 (Spring 2009): 12-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weiner, Dana E. \u201cAnti-abolition Violence and Freedom of Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 1843\u20131848.\u201d Journal of Illinois History<\/em> 11 (Autumn 2008): 179\u2013204.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitby, Gary L.  “Horns of Dilemma: The Sun<\/em>, Abolition, and the 1833-34 New York Riots.”  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 67 (1990): 410-419.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram.  \u201cThe Abolitionists\u2019 Postal Campaign of 1835.<\/em>\u201d  Journal of Negro History<\/em> 50:4 (October 1965): 227-238.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram.  Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery<\/em>.  New York: Atheneum, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yothers, Brian.   Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass<\/em>.  Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yellin, Jean F.  Women and Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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