This reference work chronicles the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life the key events, leading figures, and socioeconomic forces in the history of American antislavery, abolition, and emancipation. The coverage encompasses both white abolitionists such as Theodore Dwight Weld and William Lloyd Garrison and black abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Delaney, and Sojourner Truth. It includes primary sources that promote critical thinking and interpretive reading skills underscored in the Common Core Standards and provides additional reading suggestions and a bibliography of sources to supply avenues for further study.