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The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement By: George Spring Merriam (1843-1914) |
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A History of American Slavery
and Enfranchisement BY GEORGE S. MERRIAM HASKELL HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD.
Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books NEW YORK. N. Y. 10012 1970
First Published 1906 HASKELL HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD.
Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books 280 LAFAYETTE STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10012 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75 95441 Standard Book Number 8383 0994 1 Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
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 344 XXXVI. REGENERATION 354 XXXVII. ARMSTRONG 362 XXXVIII. EVOLUTION 371 XXXIX. EBB AND FLOW 382 XL. LOOKING FORWARD 391 INDEX 413
THE NEGRO AND THE NATION
CHAPTER I HOW SLAVERY GREW IN AMERICA
An English traveler, riding along the banks of the Potomac in mid July,
1798, saw ahead of him on the road an old fashioned chaise, its driver
urging forward his slow horse with the whip, until a sharp cut made the
beast swerve, and the chaise toppled over the bank, throwing out the
driver and the young lady who was with him... Continue reading book >>
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