PART ONE: Introduction: William Lloyd Garrison and the fight against slavery. "I could bring them to reason": Garrison in 1835 and 1863 -- Beginning The Liberator -- From colonization to "immediate" abolition -- Abolition, politics, and violent means -- Slavery: the historical record -- Morality versus politics: strategies for abolition -- Garrison's punitive style: the language of abolition -- Garrison, Douglass, and racial prejudice; Endings: Garrison in 1865 and after -- -- PART TWO: The documents. 1. Address to the American Colonization Society, July 4, 1829 -- 1831-1840: the first decade of The Liberator: arguments for abolition -- 2. "To the Public," January 1, 1831 -- 3. "Working Men," January 1, 1831 -- 4. "Truisms," January 8. 1831 -- 5."Walker's Appeal," January 8, 1831 -- 6. "Removal to Texas," January 22, 1831 -- 7. "We present our patrons...," April 23, 1831 -- 8. "The Insurrection," September 3, 1831 -- 9. "Guilt of New-England," January 7, 1832 -- 10. On the Constitution and the Union, December 29, 1832 -- 11. "Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention," December 14, 1833 -- 12. The Progress of Antislavery, January 23, 1836 -- 13. "Rights of Woman," January 12, 1838 -- 14. "Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention," September 28, 1838 -- 15. "Abolition at the Ballot-Box," June 28, 1839 -- 1841-1850: "No union with slaveholders!" -- 16. On Frederick Douglass, July 1, 1842 -- 17. "Address to the Slaves of the United States," June 2, 1843 -- 18. "The American Union," January 10, 1845 -- 19. "American Colorphobia," June 11, 1847 -- 20. Mob Attack on Douglass, August 20, 1847 -- 21. The Death of President Polk, June 22, 1849 -- 22. John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and the Compromise of 1850, March 15, 1850 -- 1851-1860: Decade of crisis: the coming of the Civil War -- 23. Review of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, March 26, 1852 -- 24. Women's Rights, October 28, 1853 -- 25. Uncle Tom's Cabin Reconsidered, December 23, 1853 -- 26. The Bible and Women's Rights, January 12, 1855 -- 27. Disunion, June 15, 1855 -- 28. "The 'Infidelity' of Abolitionism," December 21, 1855 -- 29. "Southern Degradation," September 19, 1856 -- 30. Dred Scott and Disunion, March 12, 1858 -- 31. "Depravity of the American Press," September 17, 1858 -- 32. "The Tragedy at Harper's Ferry," October 28, 1859 -- 33. John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance, December 16, 1859 -- 34. Antislavery Progress, November 9, 1860 -- 35. "Southern Desperation," November 16, 1860 -- 1861-1865: the final phase of The Liberator: Garrison and Lincoln -- 36. "The War - Its Cause and Cure," May 3, 1861 -- 37. "Why a Prolonged War," January 30, 1863 -- Defense of Lincoln, May 20, 1864 -- 39. "The Late Presidential Struggle," November 18, 1864 -- 40. The Death of Slavery, February 10, 1865 -- 41. "Valedictory: The last Number of The Liberator," December 29, 1865.