The Rise of Anti-Slavery

1. Eighteenth-Century Roots
   1. Enlightenment
   2. Revolutionary Fervor
   3. Radical Christianity--The Quakers
2. Post-Revolutionary Decline
   1. Conservative Reaction
   2. Conservative Antislavery--The American Colonization Society (1816)
3. Abolitionism
   1. Origins
      1. Links to American Reform Impulse
      2. Crystallization--Events of the 1830s
   2. The American Antislavery Society (1833)
      1. Program--"Moral Suasion"
      2. Reaction
         1. From White Southerners--"Incendiaries"
         2. From Northerners
            1. Persecution as "Subversives"--BUT ALSO . . .
            2. Rising Sympathy--Leading to . . .
   3. Political Abolitionism
      1. The "Slave Power" Issue
      2. The Movement Split
         1. The American and Foreign Antislavery Society (1840)
         2. The Liberty Party (1840)