Abolitionist Press
Allison, Sarah Danielle. The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery. New York: Columbia University Press, 2025.
Aptheker, Herbert A. Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement. Boston: Twayne, 1989.
Arkin, Marc M. “The Federalist Trope: Power and Passion in Abolitionist Rhetoric.” Journal of American History 88 (June 2001): 75-98.
Bennett, Michael. Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Brennan, Denis P. “The Printer’s Stand: William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator.” PhD dissertation, State University of New York-Albany, 2003.
Brennan, Denis. The Making of an Abolitionist: William Lloyd Garrison’s Path to Publishing The Liberator. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014.
Brewer, James S. Wendell Phillips: Liberty’s Hero. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
Brown, David. “William Lloyd Garrison, Transatlantic Abolitionism, and Colonization in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Revival of the Peculiar Solution?” Slavery and Abolition 33 (June 2012): 233–250.
Cain, William E., ed., William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from the Liberator. Boston: Bedford Books, 1994.*
Carwardine, Richard J. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Crockett, Hasan. “The Incendiary Pamphlet: David Walker’s Appeal in Georgia.” Journal of Negro History 83:3 (Summer 2001): 305-318.
Curtis, Michael Kent. “The Curious History of Attempts to Suppress Anti-Slavery Speech, Press, and Petition in 1835-1837.” Northwestern University Law Review 89 (Spring 1995): 785-870.
Cutter, Martha J. The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.
Delbanco, Andrew. The Abolitionist Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
DeLombard, Jeannine Marie. Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Dillon, Merton L. Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist Editor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
Dillon, Merton L. The Abolitionists: The Growth of a Dissenting Minority. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979.
Dinius, Marcy J. The Textual Effects of David Walker’s Appeal: Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Domke, David. “The Press and ‘Delusive Theories of Equality and Emancipation and Fraternity’ in the Age of Emancipation.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 13:3 (September 1996): 228-250.
Duberman, Martin. The Antislavery Vanguard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Duerk, John A. “Elijah P. Lovejoy: Anti- Catholic Abolitionist.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 108:2 (Summer 2015): 103-121.
Dwyer, Erin Austin. “The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press.” Slavery & Abolition 45, no. 1 (2024): 10–26.
Ellingwood, Ken. First To Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery. New York: Pegasus Books, 2021.
Faber, Doris. I Will Be Heard: The Life of William Lloyd Garrison. New York: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1970.
Fanuzzi, Robert. Abolition’s Public Sphere. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Fee, Frank E., Jr. “To No One More Indebted: Frederick Douglass and Julia Griffiths, 1849-63.” Journalism History 37:1 (Spring 2011): 12-26.
Filler, Louis. The Crusade Against Slavery, 1830-1860. New York: Harper and Row, 1960.
Filler, Louis, ed. Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom. New York: Hill and Wang, 1965.
Fisher Fiskin, Shelley, and Carla L. Paterson. “We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident: The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass’s Journalism,” in Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays, ed. Eric J. Sundquist. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Gabrial, Brian. The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement. Charleston: University of South Carolina Press, 2016.
Gill, John. Tide Without Turning: Elijah Lovejoy and Freedom of the Press. Boston: Beacon Books, 1959.
Gilmore, Michael T. The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Glickman, Lawrence B. “Buy for the Sake of the Slave: Abolitionism and the Origins of American Consumer Activism.” American Quarterly 56:4 (December 2004): 889-912.
Goddu, Teresa A. “The Antislavery Almanac and the Discourse of Numeracy.” Book History 12:1 (2009): 129-155.
Goddu, Teresa A. “Anti-Slavery’s Panoramic Perspective.” MELUS 39:2 (Summer 2014): 12-41.
Goddu, Teresa A. Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Gradert, Kenyon. “A Paper Puritan of Puritans: The Liberator’s Protestant Spirit in the Antebellum Public Sphere.” Journal of American Studies 56:4 (2022): 589-612.
Gronningsater, Sarah L. H. The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.
Harrold, Stanley. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Harrold, Stanley. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Hersh, Blanche Glassman. The Slavery of Sex: Feminist Abolitionists in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.
Hirshman, Linda. The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation. New York: Mariner Books 2022.
Hoganson, Cristin. “Garrisonian Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Gender, 1850-1860.” American Quarterly 45 (December 1993): 558-595.
Johnson, David W. “Freesoilers for God: Kansas Newspaper Editors and the Anti-Slavery Crusade.” Kansas History 2 (Summer 1979): 74-85.
Kielbowicz, Richard B. “The Law and Mob Law in Attacks on Antislavery Newspapers, 1833–1860.” Law & History Review 24 (Fall 2006): 559–599.
Kraditor, Aileen S. Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1989. Originally published in 1969.
Laurie, Bruce. Beyond Garrison: Anti-Slavery and Social Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Leavell, Lori. “‘Not Intended Exclusively for the Slave States: Antebellum Recirculation of David Walker’s Appeal.” Callaloo 38, no. 3 (2015): 679–95.
Lerner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters From South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. revised edition.
Lowance, Mason, ed. Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader. New York: Penguin books, 2000.
Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick, and John Stauffer, eds. Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism. New York: New Press, 2006.
McInerney, Daniel J. “A State of Commerce: Market Power and Slave Power in Abolitionist Political Rhetoric.” Civil War History 37 (June 1991): 101-119.
McInnis, Maurie D. Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Meer, Sarah. “Public and Personal Letters: Julia Griffiths and Frederick Douglass’ Paper.” Slavery and Abolition 33 (June 2012): 251–264.
Mercieca, Jennifer Rose. “The Culture of Honor: How Slaveholders Responded to the Abolitionist Mail Crisis of 1835.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 10:1 (Spring 2007): 51-76.
Merrill, Walter M. Against Wind and Tide: A Biography of William Lloyd Garrison. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.
Moland, Lydia. Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Nelson, Truman, ed. Documents of Upheaval: Selections from William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, 1831-1865. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.
Newman, Richard S. The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Nye, Russel B. Fettered Freedom: Civil Liberties and the Slavery Controversy, 1830-1860. East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1963.
Osborn, Ronald. “William Lloyd Garrison and the United States Constitution: The Political Evolution of an American Radical.” Journal of Law and Religion 24:1 (2008–2009): 65–88.
Ostrowski, Carl. “Slavery, Labor Reform, and Intertextuality in Antebellum Print Culture: The Slave Narrative and the City-Mysteries Novel.” African American Review 40:3 (Fall 2006): 493-506.
Page, Allison. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Page, Tyler G. “Public Relations Tactics and Methods in Early 1800s America: An Examination of an American Anti-Slavery Movement.” Public Relations Review 40:4 (November 2014): 684-691.
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Rael, Patrick, ed. African-American Activism Before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Reilly, Bernard F., Jr., “The Art of the Antislavery Movement,” in Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston, ed. Donald M. Jacobs. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Reynolds, David S. Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.
Richards, Leonard L. “Gentlemen of Property and Standing”: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Ripley, C. Peter, et al, eds. The Black Abolitionist Papers. 5 volumes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985-1992.
Risley, Ford. Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008.
Rohrback, Augusta. “Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Reexamining William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator.” American Literature 73 (December 2001): 727-755.
Salerno, Beth A. Sister Societies: Women’s Anti-Slavery Organizations in Antebellum America. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Savage, W. Sherman. “Abolitionist Literature in the Mails. 1835-1836.” The Journal of Negro History 13, no. 2 (1928): 150–184.
Shortell, Timothy. “The Rhetoric of Black Abolitionism: An Exploratory Analysis of Antislavery Newspapers in New York State.” Social Science History 28:1 (Spring 2004): 75-109.
Simon, Paul. Lovejoy, Martyr to Freedom. St. Louis: Concordia, 1964.
Simon, Paul. Freedom’s Champion: Elijah Lovejoy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Stewart, James B. “The Aims and Impact of Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1840-1860.” Civil War History 15 (1969): 197-209.
Stewart, James B. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery. Revised Edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. (originally published in 1976)
Stewart, James B., ed.. William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: History, Legacy, and Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Taylor, Alice. “Selling Abolitionism: The Commercial, Material, and Social World of the Boston Antislavery Fair, 1834–1858.” PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2008.
Tharaud, Jerome. “The Evangelical Press, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Human Medium.” Arizona Quarterly 69:2 (Summer 2013): 25-54.
Thomas, John L. The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison, A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.
Thompson, Ralph. “The Liberty Bell and Other Anti-Slavery Gift Books.” New England Quartlerly 7 (March 1934): 154-168.
Volpe, Vernon L. “The Anti-Abolitionist Campaign of 1840.” Civil War History 32:4 (December 1986): 325-339.
Walters, Ronald G. The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
Watts, Liz. “Lydia Marie Child: Editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1841-43.” Journalism History 35:1 (Spring 2009): 12-22.
Weiner, Dana E. “Anti-abolition Violence and Freedom of Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 1843–1848.” Journal of Illinois History 11 (Autumn 2008): 179–204.
Whitby, Gary L. “Horns of Dilemma: The Sun, Abolition, and the 1833-34 New York Riots.” Journalism Quarterly 67 (1990): 410-419.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. “The Abolitionists’ Postal Campaign of 1835.” Journal of Negro History 50:4 (October 1965): 227-238.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery. New York: Atheneum, 1971.
Yothers, Brian. Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018.
Yellin, Jean F. Women and Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
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