The second wave of abolitionism, from the late 1820s through the Civil War, saw the movement coalesce into a social and political movement that called for an immediate end to slavery in the United States. According to the author, this wave grew out of the obvious failure of first-wave abolitionism to stop the spread and growth of slavery in America. Yet it also gained strength from the achievements of its predecessor, which included the emergence of substantial free black communities in the Northern states and upper South. Excellent examples of the second wave of abolitionism in Manisha Sinha’s work are the American Colonization Society and the Anti-Man-Hunting League. The American Colonization Society was heartedly opposed by middle-class
