Northern Labor and Antislavery

This volume calls up the voices of the antebellum labor movement and abolitionists, enabling the reader to understand more clearly the process that led Northern workers to support Lincoln in waging war against slaveholders.

PHILIP S. FONER is Professor Emeritus of History at Lincoln University. He is the author of many books, including The History of Black Americans (3 vols., Greenwood, 1975, 1983, 1983) and (with David Roediger) Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (Greenwood, 1988). More recently, he compiled (with Daniel Rosenberg) Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History (Greenwood, 1993). HERBERT SHAPIRO is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is author of White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery (1988) and has edited or co-edited several books, including American Communism and Black Americans: A Documentary History, 1930-1934 (1991) and Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History (1993).

Acknowledgments Introduction Wage Labor and Chattel Slavery Abolition Addresses Labor Land Monopoly, Universal Reform and Slavery Voices of Labor on Slavery and Abolition From the 1850s' Crisis to Civil War Index