"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."— Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Mason Lowance is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include Increase Mather (1974) , Massachusetts Broadsides of the American Revolution (1976) , The Language of Canaan (1980) , Typological Writings of Jonathan Edwards (1993), and The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1994). He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Institute at Yale University and a life member of the American Antiquarian Society.