Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-295) and index.
Racial equality in the era of the American Revolution -- Toward a Herrenvolk republic : the meaning of African colonization -- The black struggle for racial equality, 1817-1832 -- The conversion of William Lloyd Garrison -- "The hidden springs of prejudice" -- The assault on racial prejudice, 1831-1837 -- William Goodell and the market revolution -- Anatomy of white abolitionism -- God, the churches, and slavery -- "The tide of moral power" -- Abolitionists versus aristocrats -- Workers, radical Jacksonians, and abolitionism -- Anatomy of female abolitionism -- Roots of female abolitionism -- Female abolitionist activism -- The American peculiarity -- Of one blood