Each student transcribed, annotated and wrote a scholarly introduction to an abolitionist document published in the United States between 1760 and 1820. Their work has been compiled in a single volume, Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings, 1760-1820, and is being published in a series of 12 individual pamphlets for classroom use. The pamphlets are as follows:

1] Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes (1760) and Notes on the Slave Trade (1781) by Anthony Benezet, edited by Thomas Wolf, Harvard University

2] A Mite Cast into the Treasury: Or, Observations on Slave-Keeping (1772) by David Cooper, edited by Kristin DeBusk, Texas Technological University

3] A Serious Address to the Rulers of America, on the Inconsistency of their Conduct Respecting Slavery (1783) by David Cooper, edited by Rebecca Miller, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill

4] The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (1787) edited by Sam Rosenfeld, Columbia University

5] A Poetical Epistle to the Enslaved Africans, in the Character of an Ancient Negro (1790) by Joseph Sansom, edited by Raphael B. Moreen, Princeton University

6] The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade and of the Slavery of the Africans . . . A Sermon (1791) by Jonathan Edwards, edited by Sarah Gamertsfelder, University of Maine

7] Three Anti-Slavery Woman Writers: “The African Chief ” (1793; repr. 1823) and an excerpt from Beacon Hill (1797) by Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton; “On Slavery” (1805) by Isabella Oliver Sharp; and An Address to the Inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina (1805) by Ann Alexander, edited by Kathryn Gin, Stanford University

8] Minutes of the Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States (1794), edited by Jennifer Randazzo, University of Notre Dame

9] The American in Algiers, or the Patriot of Seventy-Six in Captivity (1797) [anonymous], edited by J. Micah Guster, Tennessee State University

10] An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1809) by Henry Sipkins, edited by Laura Ferguson, Oregon State University

11] Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill Before the Senate of Pennsylvania (1813) [by James Forten?], edited by Nicholas Osborne, Johns Hopkins University

12] Papers Relative to the Restriction of Slavery. Speeches of Mr. King . . . on the Bill for Authorising the People of the Territory of Missouri to Form a Constitution (1819), edited by Eric C. Steinhart, St. Olaf College