The battle of principles ; a study of the heroism and eloquence of the anti-slavery conflict.
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New York :
Negro Universities Press,
[1969]
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Table of Contents:
- Rise of American slavery: growth of the traffic
- Webster and Calhoun: the battle line in array
- Garrison and Phillips: anti-slavery agitation
- Charles Sumner: the appeal to educated men
- Horace Greeley: the appeal to the common people
- Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Brown: the conflict precipitated
- Lincoln and Douglas: influence of the great debate
- Reasons for secession: southern leaders
- Henry Ward Beecher: the appeal to England
- Heroes of battle: American soldiers and sailors
- The life of the people at home who supported the soldiers at the front
- Abraham Lincoln: the martyred President.