Slavery as a cause of the Civil War /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rozwenc, Edwin C. (Edwin Charles), 1915-1974 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : D.C. Heath and Company, [1963]
Edition:Revised edition.
Series:Problems in American civilization.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The decision-makers and the slavery question
  • Southern thought / George Fitzhugh
  • The House divided / Abraham Lincoln
  • "Relentless avarice ... has chained ... the agricultural states to the northern states" / Reuben Davis
  • Resistance to Black Republican domination / Otho Robards Singleton
  • "I will not curse John Brown" / Owen Lovejoy
  • A declaration of the causes which induced the secession of South Carolina
  • "Is there anything humiliating in a fair compromise?" / Stephen A. Douglas
  • "And we are asked to compromise!" / Orrin S. Ferry
  • "This conspiracy against the unity of the Republic" / Henry Wilson
  • "The chief stone of the corner in our new edifice" / Alexander H. Stephens
  • Part II. Twentieth-century historians and the problem of slavery
  • The approach of the irrepressible conflict / Charles A. Beard
  • The natural limits of slavery expansion / Charles W. Ramsdell
  • The slave power conspiracy / Russel B. Nye
  • The peculiar institution / Kenneth M. Stampp
  • The economics of slavery in the Ante-Bellum South / Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer
  • Slavery, a problem in American institutional and intellectual life / Stanley Elkins.