Abolitionism

George H. Smith wrote an extensive and comprehensive history of abolitionism in 2017 and 2018. We start off with his overview of abolitionism written for Libertarianism.org's Encyclopedia of Libertarianism.

• Abolitionism (2008) Encyclopedia of Libertarianism

And here is the series of 51 essays on Abolitionism. All articles are at Libertarianism.org

Categories: abolitionism, Abraham Lincoln, anarchism, Civil War (US), colonization, conscription, constitution, Dio Lewis, disunionism, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, James, Birney, Lysander Spooner, Moncure Conway, Liberty Party, natural law, prohibition, right of resistance, right of secession, slavery, social contract, socialism, Timothy Sandefur, vices and crimes, voluntaryism, voting, Wendell Phillips, Whigs, William Lloyd Garrison

1. Abolitionism and Self-Ownership (2017) 
2. Abolitionism: Wendell Phillips on Voting and Political Action (2017) 
3. Abolitionism: The Schism Over Voting (2017) 
4. Abolitionism, Violence, and How William Lloyd Garrison was Almost Killed by a Mob (2017) 
5. Can Abolitionists Vote or Take Office under the United States Constitution? (2017)
6. More on Wendell Phillips and Anti-Political Abolitionism (2017)
7. Abolitionism and Modern Voluntaryism (2017)
8. Anarchism Versus Limited Government Abolitionism (2017)
9. Final Comments on Wendell Phillips and Non-Voting (2017)
10. Abolitionism: Slavery as Sin (2017)
11. Abolitionism, Prohibition, and the Whig Party (2017) 
12. Gerrit Smith, Lysander Spooner, and Dio Lewis on Prohibition (2017)
13. Dio Lewis on Lysander Spooner and Prohibition (2017)
14. Lysander Spooner on Vices and Crimes (2017)
15. More on Lysander Spooner, Vices and Crimes (2017)
16. Some Background on the Prohibition Movement (2017)
17. Lysander Spooner's Moral Theory (2017)
18. Concluding Remarks on Vices Are Not Crimes (2017)
19. The Constitution and Slavery (2017)
20. Lysander Spooner on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery (2017)
21. Are Judges Bound to Enforce Unjust Laws? (2017)
22. Lysander Spooner on Natural Law (2017)
23. An Overview of Some Proslavery Arguments (2017)
24. Constitutional Controversies (2017)
25. Slavery in the Constitutional Convention (2017)
26. The Slave Trade and the Constitution (2017)
27. Debates on the Slave Trade during the Constitutional Convention (2017)
28. Back to Lysander Spooner (2017)
29. Lysander Spooner and the Right of Resistance (2017)
30. Lysander Spooner on the Philosophy of Law (2017)
31. Lysander Spooner on Constitutional Interpretation (2017)
32. Lysander Spooner on the Fiction of a Social Contract (2017)
33. Lysander Spooner's Rules for Interpreting the Constitution (2018)
34. The Quotable Lysander Spooner (2018)
35. Abraham Lincoln and the Abolitionists (2018)
36. The Abolitionists on the Right of Secession (2018)
37. Garrison on the Civil War and Conscription (2018)
38. Conflicts Among Peace Advocates During the Civil War (2018)
39. Garrison on the Right of Secession (2018)
40. Conflicts Among Peace Advocates During the Civil War (2018)
41. More on Garrison and the Civil War (2018)
42. Defenses of the Right of Secession (2018)
43. Moncure Conway's Fall From Grace (2018)
44. Defending Slavery by Attacking Capitalists (2018)
45. Slavery as Socialism (2018)
46. The Liberty Party (2018)
47. James Birney: How a Southern Slave Owner Converted to Abolitionism (2018)
48. James Birney, Colonization, and Abolitionism (2018)
49. James Birney and the Psychology of Liberating Slaves (2018)
50. A Review of Timothy Sandefur’s Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man (2018)
51. William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass on Disunionism (2018)