Abolition movement

Chronology of American slavery and abolition

From common practice to peculiar institution : slavery and abolitionism to 1816

The emergence of a national movement : 1816 to 1840

Growing pains of the abolition movement : 1840 to 1848

Slavery, abolition, and the West : 1848 to 1856

Toward the Civil War : 1856 to 1865

Biographical profiles of key abolitionists.