Table of Contents

Introduction: The Meaning of Slavery in the North Robert L. Hall Economic Impact of the Slave Trade on Textile Industrialization in New England Ronald Bailey Slavery, Antislavery and Northern Industry Myron O. Stachiw Slavery in the North Thomas H. O'Connor Southern Wiggery and Economic Development Larry K. Menna The Northern Churches and the Moral Problem of Slavery John R. McKivigan Feminist Abolitionists in Boston and Philadelphia Carolyn Williams Reading Women into Antislavery History Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven Blackface Minstrelsy, Vernacular Comics and the Politics of Slavery in the North Alexander Saxton