Introduction (essay and Item 1)
I. Concord context (essay and Items 2 and 3)
II. Local antislavery societies:
II.A. Middlesex County Antislavery Society (essay and Items 4-8)
II.B. Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society (essay and Items 9-15)
III. Some Key Concord Abolitionists:
III.A. Mary Merrick Brooks (essay and Items 16-23)
III.B. The Emersons (essay and Items 24-29)
III.C. The Thoreaus (essay and Items 30-38)
Henry David Thoreau (essay and Items 39-42)
III.D. The Alcotts (essay and Items 43 and 44)
III.E. The Hoar Family (essay and Item 45)
III.F. The Robinsons (essay and Items 46 and 47)
III.G. The Whitings (essay and Items 48 and 49)
III.H. Josiah Bartlett (essay and Items 50 and 51)
III.I. The Prescotts (essay and Items 52 and 53)
III.J. The Garrisons (essay and Item 54)
III.K. The Hunts (essay and Items 55-57)
IV. Antislavery lectures in Concord (essay):
IV.A. Frederick Douglass (essay and Item 58)
IV.B. Wendell Phillips and the Concord Lyceum (essay and Items 59 and 60)
IV.C. Theodore Parker (essay and Items 61 and 62)
IV.D. George Thompson (essay and Items 63 and 64)
V. Underground Railroad (essay and Items 65-69)
VI. Frank Sanborn (essay and Items 70-77)
VII. John Brown (essay and Items 78-86)
VIII. Civil War (essay and Items 87-93)