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| General Introduction | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Historical Background for Antebellum Abolitionism, 1700-1830 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Selling of Joseph (1700) | |
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| A Brief Candid Answer to The Selling of Joseph (1701) | |
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| The Negro Christianized (1706) | |
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| Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754 and 1762) | |
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| "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773) | |
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| from the Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| "Charge to the Grand Jury of Maine, May 8, 1820" | |
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| "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852) | |
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| The Biblical Antislavery Arguments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Bible Against Slavery (1837) | |
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| "An Address to the British Antislavery Society" (1851) | |
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| Slavery in the United States (1843) | |
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| Negro Slavery Unjustifiable (1802 and 1846) | |
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| The Wrong of Slavery (1864) | |
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| The Abolitionist Crusade, 1830-1865 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "An Address to the American Colonization Society" (1829) | |
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| "Commencement of The Liberator," editorial (1831) | |
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| "Truisms" (1831) | |
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| "Henry Clay's Colonization Address" (1830) | |
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| "The Great [Constitutional] Crisis" (1832) | |
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| "American Colorphobia" (1847) | |
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| "Declaration of the National Antislavery Convention" (1833) | |
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| "Speech at the Fourth National Women's Rights Convention" (1853) | |
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| "No Compromise with Slavery" (1854) | |
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| An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829) | |
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| "Massachusetts to Virginia" (1843) | |
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| Justice and Expediency (1833) | |
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| An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) | |
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| Slavery (1835) | |
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| "Letter to the Rev. Smylie" (1837) | |
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| An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) | |
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| "An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States" (1836) | |
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| An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1837) | |
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| Letters to Catharine E. Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1838) | |
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| American Slavery As It Is (1839) | |
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| An Antislavery Manual (1837) | |
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| "A Discourse on the Slavery Question" (1839) | |
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| The Destiny of a People of Color (1843) | |
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| The Constitution, a Pro-Slavery Compact (1845) | |
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| Philosophy of the Abolition Movement (1853) | |
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| The Unconstitutionality of Salvery (1845) | |
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| "Mr. Calhoun's Report," from The National Antislavery Standard, February 15, 1849 | |
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| "The Abolitionists and Emancipation," from The National Antislavery Standard, March 1, 1849 | |
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| "Politics and the Pulpit," from The National Antislavery Standard, January 25, 1849 | |
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| "The Church and the Clergy," from The National Antislavery Standard, February 27, 1845 | |
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| "The Church and the Clergy Again," from The National Antislavery Standard, March 27, 1845 | |
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| "Daniel Webster," from The National Antislavery Standard, July 2, 1846 | |
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| "The Moral Movement Against Slavery," from The National Antislavery Standard, February 22, 1849 | |
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| "Speech on the Institution of Slavery" (1852) | |
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| The Function and Place of Conscience in Relation to the Laws of Men (1850), ed. Dean Grodzins | |
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| "Present Aspect of the Antislavery Enterprise," Speech to the American Antislavery Society (1856), ed. Dean Grodzins | |
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| "Concluding Remarks," from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | |
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| from Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852) | |
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| "Lecture on Slavery" (1855), ed. William Pannapacker | |
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| The Barbarism of Slavery (1860) | |
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| Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery, Embracing the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, the Missouri Compromise Act of 1820, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the Ordinance of 1787, and the Wilmot Proviso of 1847 | |