in the United States.• Contains excerpts from speeches and writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, John C. Calhoun, and others, as well as documents from the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Liberty party• Provides a chronological history beginning with the colonial era and ending with the Civil War, covering every major event in the abolition movement• Includes a biographical profiles section containing several mini-biographies of the most important abolitionists• A glossary defines terms used commonly in discussing American slavery and abolitionism such as "chattel," "mulatto," and "moral suasion"

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