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 Whiggery 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