Abolitionist Press
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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