"Examines how antislavery white congregations, radicalized abolitionist women, and African Americans merged their agendas into a single antislavery, religious, political campaign for equality with Owen Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy's role in nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end slavery"--