Slavery and the Growth of Sectional Conﬂict 128

The Coming of the War and Emancipation 136

Are Liberty and Justice for All? 143

Entries 151

Alabama Platform 157

American Colonization Society 163

Susan Brownell Anthony 18201906 169

Artisans 176

Crispus Attucks c 17231770 182

James G Birney 17921857 188

Blair Education Bill 195

BrooksSumner Affair 201

John Mifﬂin Brown 18171893 207

Anthony Burns c 18301862 211

Elizabeth Buffum Chace 18061899 218

Civil War 18611865 224

CodeNoir 230

Recent Developments 236

Contrabands 242

Crittenden Compromise 248

Thomas Roderick Dew 18021846 254

Diseases and African Slavery in the New World 257

Frederick Douglass c 18171895 264

Andrew Durnford 18001859 270

The Emancipator 276

Filibusters 282

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen 17871860 288

Free African Society 294

Freeport Doctrine 300

Fugitive Slave Act 1850 301

Thomas Garrett 17891871 307

Georgia Code 1861 314

Angelina Grimké 18051879 321

Harpers Ferry Raid 1859 327

Hinton Rowan Helper 18291909 333

Hiring of Slaves 339

Illegal Slave Trade 342

Immediatism 343

Harriet Ann Jacobs 18131897 348

John Jasper 18121901 349

George Washington Julian 18171899 354

Juneteenth 355

Knights of the Golden Circle 360

L 362

Liberia 367

Abraham Lincoln 18091865 368

David Ross Locke 18331888 374

Madison County Slave War 380

Margaret Mercer 17911846 381

Lucretia Cofﬁn Mott 17931880 388

Volume iii

List of Contributors xix xix

Lucretia Cofﬁn Mott 17931880 387 387

Negro Convention Movement 18301854 400 400

James W Pennington 18091870 413 413

Nulliﬁcation Doctrine 405 416

Popular Sovereignty 419 419

Proslavery Argument 425 425

Rice Cultivation and Trade 437 437

Sea Islands 443 443

William Gilmore Simms 18061870 449

1619 451

Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes Woolman 457

Maria W Stewart 18031879 463

Thornton Stringfellow 17881869 469

36º30 North Latitude 475

Sojourner Truth c 17971883 481

Underground Railroad 487

Denmark Vesey 17671822 494

Wage Slavery 500

Warof1812 506

Phillis Wheatley c 17531784 512

Women and the Antislavery Movement 18321870 518

Benjamin Franklins Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind 527

John Locke Prepares a Constitution for Carolina 1669 532

Code Noir of Louisiana 1724 541

Argument for Slavery in Georgia 1743 547

Defense of Colonial Slavery in Virginia 1757 551

Slaves Petition for Freedom During the Revolution 1773 553

Lord Dunmores Proclamation 1775 554

Vermont Abolishes Slavery 1777 555

Commonwealth v Jennison 1783 558

Preamble of the Free African Society 1787 559

The Fugitive Slave Act 1793 560

The Formation of a Black Congregation in Philadelphia 1794 561

Thomas Jefferson on Race and Slavery 1801 562

Fear That St Domingo Might Inﬂuence American Slaves 1804 566

A Kentucky Slave Code 1811 567

Paul Cuffee Visits Sierra Leone 1811 568

Memorial to the Congress from the American Colonization Society 1820 569

Prospectus of The Emancipator 1820 571

Fugitives Follow the North Star to Escape c 1820 572

Charles Ball Describes the Provisions Granted Slaves c 1820 574

Description of Denmark Vesey 1822 575

Constitution of the Manumission Society of North Carolina 1824 576

Quaker Attitudes Toward Slavery 1824 577

Fears About Pending Emancipation of Slaves in Texas 1826 578

Freedoms Journal Editorial 1827 579

Freedom for an African Prince 1828 580

David Walker Addresses Free Persons of Color 1828 581

Key Arguments from David Walkers Appeal 1829 583

Address to the Free People of Colour of These United States 1830 586

The Liberator 1831 587

William Lloyd Garrison Comments on Walkers Appeal 1831 588

From Nat Turners Confession 1831 589

Conditions of Free Blacks in Pennsylvania 1832 596

Frederick Douglass Describes Slave Resistance 1834 597

The Gag Resolutions 1836 599

A Slave Maroon Is Killed 1837 601

Wendell Phillips Eulogizes Elijah P Lovejoy 1837 602

AntiSlavery Advocates Endorse Additional Reforms 1837 605

ProSlavery Mob Attacks Abolitionist Meeting at Pennsylvania Hall 1838 607

The Plight of the Amistad Captives 1839 610

Excessive Punishment of Slaves 1839 611

Slaves Executed for Killing Overseer 1841 612

Rumors of Revolt 1841 613

Advertisements for Fugitive Slaves 1841 614

Observations on the Education of Slaves 1841 616

The Case of Margaret Garner 1856 655

Beechers Bibles Are Sent to Kansas 1856 656

Editorial Responses to the BrooksSumner Affair 1856 657

The FreeLabour Produce Movement 1857 660

Dred Scott Decision 1857 661

Editorial Response to the Dred Scott Decision 1857 662

Description of Gang Labor on a Kentucky Plantation 1857 664

George Fitzhugh Views Slavery a Condition of Nature 1857 665

James Henry Hammonds MudSill Theory 1858 666

Abraham Lincolns House Divided Speech 1858 667

Observations on Health Care of Slaves 1858 670

Vermont Personal Liberty Law 1858 671

Southern Editorial Response to the Harpers Ferry Raid 1859 672

John Browns Last Speech 1859 673

A Virginian Chastises Northern Abolitionists 1859 674

Editorial upon John Browns Hanging 1859 675

A Southerner Defends the Expansion of Slavery 1860 676

On the Immorality of Slavery 1860 677

Illegal Importation of Africans as Slaves 1860 678

ProSecession Editorial 1860 681

Hinton Rowan Helper Appeals to White Southerners 1860 682

Sexual Exploitation of Female Slaves 1860 684

Booker T Washington Describes the Slaves Living Conditions c 1860 685

Frémonts Proclamation of Emancipation 1861 687

Lincolns Plan for Compensated Emancipation 1862 688

Emancipation of Slaves in Washington D C 1862 689

Lincoln Responds to David Hunters Proclamation 1862 690

Punishment of a Slave Trader 1862 691

The Prayer of Twenty Millions 1862 692

Lincolns Response to Horace Greeley 1862 694

Jefferson Davis Proclamation Regarding Black Troops 1862 695

Emancipation Proclamation 1863 696

The Confederate Congress Reacts to Black Troops 1863 697

The Human Toll of Slavery 1863 698

National Freedmens Relief Association Guidelines 1864 699

The WadeDavis Manifesto 1864 700

Forty Acres and a Mule 1865 701

Editorial Opposing Black Laws 1865 702

Freedmens Bureau Act 1865 703

Martin R Delany Offers Advice to Freedmen 1865 704

Maintaining Order Among Freedmen 1865 705

Civil War Amendments 1865 1868 1870 706

Educational Opportunities for Freedmen 1866 707

First Civil Rights Act 1866 708

Editorial Supporting the Civil Rights Bill 1866 710

Cautious Advice to Freedmen 1866 711

Insecurity of Freedmen 1866 712

The Conditions of the Freedmen 1866 713

First Reconstruction Act 1867 714

Second Reconstruction Act 1867 715

Third Reconstruction Act 1867 717

Successful Experiments with Land Ownership 1867 719

The Freedmens Bureau Report 1870 720 xx

American Colonization Society 163 163

Susan Brownell Anthony 18201906 169 169

Artisans 176 176

Crispus Attucks c 17231770 182 182

James G Birney 17921857 188 188