CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Introductory 9 CHAPTER II. The African

PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER II. THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

CHAPTER III. LEGAL STATUS OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.

CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF EMANCIPATION.

CHAPTER V. THE OLD TESTAMENT ARGUMENT.

CHAPTER VI. THE NEW TESTAMENT ARGUMENT.

CHAPTER VII. THE ETHICAL ARGUMENT.

CHAPTER VIII. ECONOMICAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY.

CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION.

Footnotes:

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

[AND THROUGH HER, OF THE SOUTH,]

IN

RECENT AND PENDING CONTESTS AGAINST THE SECTIONAL PARTY.

BY

PROF. ROBERT L. DABNEY, D.D.,

OF VIRGINIA,
LATE OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.

NEW YORK:
E. J. HALE & SON, 16 MURRAY STREET.
1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867,

By E. J. HALE & SON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.