Summary
Introduction 9
Chapter 1 – From Defending Slavery to Criticism 13
Chapter 2 – The abolition of trafficking 23
Chapter 3 – The Search for Alternatives 33
Chapter 4 – Abolitionism. First stage: 1850-1871 39
Chapter 5 – Abolitionism. Second stage: The Law of the Free Womb 51
Chapter 6 – From the Ox Cart to the Railroad 61
Chapter 7 – Abolitionism. Third stage: the Sexagenarians Act 77
Chapter 8 – Abolitionism and abolitionists 95
Chapter 9 – Anonymous Heroes. The protest of the enslaved. The abolition 111
Chapter 10 – After the Abolition 127
Chapter 11 – The Impact of Abolition 133
Chronology 139
Bibliography 141