Books providing a general discussion of slavery as an issue in American churches:
Carwardine, Richard. Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1865 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978).
_____. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).
Daly, John Patrick. When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and The Causes of the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002).
Goen, C. C. Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Denominational Schisms and the Coming of the American Civil War (Macon, GA.: Mercer University Press, 1985).
McKivigan, John R., ed. Abolitionism and American Religion. (New York: Garland, 1999). Collection of essays by experts in the field.
------------------------- . The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984). A booklength study of the issue.
The Quakers, or Society of Friends, were, of course the pioneers among religious groups in opposing slavery. These books highlight their role in the antislavery movement:
Drake, Thomas Edward. Quakers and Slavery in America. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950).
Soderlund, Jean R. Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
On the Web, this Public Broadcasting System (PBS) site offers a useful piece on the Quakers and slavery:
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_1/p_7.html
This prizewinning study traces the evolution of Lincoln's moral views on slavery and other issues:
Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. (Grand Rapids.: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999).
For information on the American Colonization Society and other groups that saw West African resettlement as the answer to the problem of slavery in America, see these books:
Burin, Eric. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005).
Clegg, Claude Andrew. The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Sanneh, Lamin O. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Shick, Tom W. Behold the Promised Land: A History of Afro-American Settler Society in Nineteenth-Century Liberia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).
Staudenraus, P. J. The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).
Wiley, Bell I., ed. Slaves No More: Letters From Liberia, 1833-1869 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1980).
The Library of Congress's "African Mosaic" website provides helpful materials on the American Colonization Society and the founding of Liberia:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
PBS's Africans in America website and the Afro-American Almanac website also have good sections on colonization:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1521.html
http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/acs.htm
Stanford University's webpage on Liberia provides useful links to information on the history and current status of this West African republic:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/liberia.html
This book focuses on the role of African American clergy in the abolitionist movement:
Swift, David Everett. Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy before the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989).
This recent biography of David Walker will be helpful:
Hinks, Peter P. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance (University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).
For information on the American Colonization Society and other groups that saw West African resettlement as the answer to the problem of slavery in America, see these books:
Burin, Eric. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005).
Clegg, Claude Andrew. The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Sanneh, Lamin O. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Shick, Tom W. Behold the Promised Land: A History of Afro-American Settler Society in Nineteenth-Century Liberia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).
Staudenraus, P. J. The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).
Wiley, Bell I., ed. Slaves No More: Letters From Liberia, 1833-1869 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1980).
The Library of Congress's "African Mosaic" website provides helpful materials on the American Colonization Society and the founding of Liberia:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
PBS's Africans in America website and the Afro-American Almanac website also have good sections on colonization:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1521.html
http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/acs.htm
Stanford University's webpage on Liberia provides useful links to information on the history and current status of this West African republic:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/liberia.html
This book focuses on the role of African American clergy in the abolitionist movement:
Swift, David Everett. Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy before the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989).
This recent biography of David Walker will be helpful:
Hinks, Peter P. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance (University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).
As is this convenient reprint of Walker's Appeal:
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Edited and with a new introduction by Peter P. Hinks. (University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).
The Boston African American Historic Site and PBS's "Africans in America" website give good sketches of David Walker:
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/davidwalker.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931.html
For an online version of Walker's Appeal, go to the University of North Carolina's "Documenting the American South" site:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/menu.html
These books on Bourne and Lundy are also of help:
Christie, John W., and Dwight L. Dumond. George Bourne and the Book and Slavery Reconcilable (Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1969).
Dillon, Merton Lynn. Benjamin Lundy and the Struggle for Negro Freedom (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966).
If you prefer material on the Internet, try this brief sketch of Bourne:
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/B/BourneG.html
And these selections from his antislavery writings:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/bourne/bourne.html
And this sketch of Lundy from the 2002 Friends Journal:
http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/Benjamin_Lundy.htm
As you'd guess, there's substantial material on William Lloyd Garrison, the central figure among American clergy-abolitionists. These are some good starting points:
Garrison, William Lloyd. Thoughts on African Colonization. With a new preface by William Loren Katz. (New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969).
Harwell, Richard Barksdale. "The Touchstone"; William Lloyd Garrison and the Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention, Philadelphia, 1833 (Northampton, MA: Smith College, 1970.
Kraditor, Aileen S. Means and Ends in American Abolitionism; Garrison and his Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850 (New York: Vintage Books, 1970).
Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and The Abolition of Slavery (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).
Merrill, Walter M., ed. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Six volumes. (Cambridge. MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971-1981).
