The Abolitionist Movement: Documents Decoded

Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that allows readers to consider history more directly through more than 20 primary source documents.

• Includes a concise introduction that summarizes the critical points in the history of slavery and abolition

• Provides carefully selected key documents that represent the full range of American thoughts on slavery

• Supplies useful annotations that guide the reader's analysis and shows how historians deconstruct documents

• Presents information and materials that help readers to understand the forces that supported and opposed slavery, thereby giving students a better grasp of American history in general