While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book,

From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious

Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.

Presents the life of the most prominent black abolitionist of antebellum America, describing his work as a writer and activist whose assistance to runaway slave

The story of the anti-slavery movement in Ireland is little known, yet when Frederick Douglass visited the country in 1845, he described Irish abolitionists as