CONTENTS
George Spring Merriam
CHAPTER
PAGE
I.
How Slavery Grew in America
1
II.
The Acts of the Fathers
8
III.
Conflict and Compromise
21
IV.
The Widening Rift
28
V.
Calhoun and Garrison
46
VI.
Birney, Channing and Webster
58
VII.
The Underlying Forces
67
VIII.
The Mexican War
71
IX.
How to Deal with the Territories
79
X.
The Compromise of 1850
84
XI.
A Lull and a Retrospect
92
XII.
Slavery as It Was
97
XIII.
The Struggle for Kansas
112
XIV.
"
Fremont and Freedom
"
122
XV.
Three Typical Southerners
132
XVI.
Some Northern Leaders
140
XVII.
Dred Scott and Lecompton
147
XVIII.
John Brown
158
XIX.
Abraham Lincoln
172
XX.
The Election of 1860
185
XXI.
Face to Face
197
XXII.
How They Differed
205
XXIII.
Why They Fought
211
XXIV.
On Niagara's Brink—and Over
221
XXV.
The Civil War
237
XXVI.
Emancipation Begun
248
XXVII.
Emancipation Achieved
258
XXVIII.
Reconstruction: Experiments and Ideals
267
XXIX.
Reconstruction: The First Plan
274
XXX.
Congress and the "Black Codes"
281
XXXI.
Reconstruction: The Second Plan
294
XXXII.
Reconstruction: The Final Plan
306
XXXIII.
Reconstruction: The Working Out
316
XXXIV.
Three Troubled States
331
XXXV.
Reconstruction: The Last Act
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