From the Editor
Abolition, temperance, women's rights, utopian experiments, religious revivalism, prison, asylum, and even diet reform: Readers of this list know right away that they have been transported to the 1830s and '40s, America's first great "age of reform." The impulse to improve society, perhaps to perfect it, drew upon a variety of sources, from religion to the socialist theories of men like Fourier and Noyes. Whatever the wellspring of their activities, reformers brought remarkable energy and commitment to their projects. Some of their...More »
The Historian's Perspective
Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Abolitionist Sisters
by Carol Berkin
Anti-Slavery before the Revolutionary War
by Sylvia R. Frey
Abolition and Antebellum Reform
by Ronald G. Walters
“Rachel Weeping for Her Children”: Black Women and the Abolition of Slavery
by Margaret Washington