Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

CONTENTS


Part I

Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery
and Secession Defined

I.	Introduction	1
II.	Virginia—Slavery and Secession	10

Part II

Virginia Did Not Secede in Order to Extend Slavery
into the Territories, or to Prevent its Threatened
Destruction Within Her Own Borders


III.	Virginia's Colonial Record with Respect to Slavery	15

IV.	Virginia's Statute Abolishing the African Slave Trade
	and Her Part in Enacting the Ordinance of 1787	25

V.	Slavery and the Federal Constitution—
	Virginia's Position	29

VI.	The Foreign Slave Trade—
	Virginia's Efforts to Abolish It	33

VII.	Some Virginia Statutes with Respect to Slavery	41

VIII.	The Movement in the Virginia Legislature of 1832
	to Abolish Slavery in the State	45

IX.	The Northern Abolitionists and Their Reactionary
	Influence upon Anti-Slavery Sentiment in Virginia	51

X.	Negro Colonization—State and National	60

XI.	Instances of Colonization by Individual Slaveholders	66

XII.	Emancipation and Colonization—Views of
	Jefferson, Clay and Lincoln	75

XIII.	Anti-Slavery Sentiments of Prominent Virginians	82

XIV.	Anti-Slavery Sentiments of Prominent Virginians.
	Continued	91

XV.	Anti-Slavery Sentiments of Prominent Virginians.
	Concluded	96

XVI.	Specimens of Deeds and Wills Emancipating Slaves	104

XVII.	Specimens of Deeds and Wills Emancipating Slaves.
	Concluded	114

XVIII.	The Small Number of Slaveholders in Virginia,
	as Compared with Her Whole White Population	125

XIX.	The Injurious Effects of Slavery upon the
	Prosperity of Virginia	128

XX.	The Custom of Buying and Selling Slaves—
	Virginia's Attitude	139

XXI.	The Custom of Buying and Selling Slaves—
	Virginia's Attitude. Concluded	147

XXII.	Small Proportion of Slaveholders among Virginia
	Soldiers	154

XXIII.	Some of the Almost Insuperable Difficulties which
	Embarrassed Every Plan of Emancipation	159

XXIV.	Some of the Almost Insuperable Difficulties which
	Embarrassed Every Plan of Emancipation. Continued	164

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