Slavery as a cause of the Civil War /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
D.C. Heath and Company,
[1963]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Problems in American civilization.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. |
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| 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.