Books by Richard S. Newman

A history of how abolitionism evolved from an elite and conservative movement to a radical, grassroots reform cause. It traces the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the 1830s, covering the attitudes and actions which made it the radical cause we think of it as today.

A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Richard Allen (1760-1831) influenced nearly every black leader of the nineteenth century, from Douglass to Du Bois. This book tells the story of the founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic.