Essays

The Selling of Joseph: Bostonians, Anti-Slavery, and the Protestant International, 1689–1733
Mark A. Peterson

Jonathan Edwards's Defense of Slavery
Kenneth P. Minkema

Marcus Morton and the Dilemma of Jacksonian Antislavery in Massachusetts, 1817–1849
Jonathan Earle

The Roberts Case, the Easton Family, and the Dynamics of the Abolitionist Movement in Massachusetts, 1776–1870
James B. Stewart & George R. Price
 

Review Essay

Imagining Emancipation
Recent Writings on American Antislavery
Dee E. Andrews

Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860. [Ithica, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.] 320 pp.

Richard S. Newman, Patrick Rael, and Philip Lapsansky, eds., Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790–1860. [New York and London: Routledge, 2000.] 320 pp.

Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. [Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.] 384 pp.

John Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. [Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002.] 367 pp.

Julie Winch, A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten. [Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.] 384 pp.