This chapter argues that in addition to being part of the juvenile abolitionist literature tradition, and thereby challenging the institution of slavery, The Anti-Slavery Alphabet--one of only two extant anti-slavery alphabets and the only one published in the antebellum period and explicitly aimed at children1 --reinforces rather than challenges nineteenth-century racial politics. The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society was equally Garrisonian in its politics, believing that immediate abolition of slavery, by means of moral persuasion and economic boycotts, rather than working with political parties who supported the US the actual audience was, The Anti-Slavery Alphabet, like other juvenile abolitionist literature, overtly challenges the nineteenth-century politics of slavery and invites children to challenge them as well through recurring conventions from abolitionist literature. In positioning the child-audience thusly in the politics of literacy, the alphabet fails to unite fully the projects of abolitionism and literacy.