The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform

CONTENTS

Contents acknowledgments xi introduction 1 part i: origins 1. The Education of William Lloyd Garrison, 1818–1833 21 2. The Troublous Ocean of Transatlantic Abolitionism, 1833–1840 45 3. Conflict and Continuity in Transatlantic Abolitionism, 1840–1854 66 part ii: ideas 4. The Problem of Public Opinion 89 5. The Problem of Nationalism 113 6. The Problem of Aristocracy 137 7. The Problem of Influence 159 part iii: events 8. Transatlantic Revolutions and Reversals, 1848–1854 183 9. The Civil War and the Rupturing of Transatlantic Abolitionism, 1854–1863 210 10. Reconstruction and the Rupturing of Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1863–1865 232 epilogue 259 notes 271 index 333 I I This page intentionally left blank ...