Introduction.......

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER II.

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CHAPTER I.

SLAVERY FROM 1788 TO THE COMPROMISE MEASURES OF 1850. Opinions of the Fathers upon Slavery-Ordinance of 1787-Early Abolition Societies-Slavery Abolished in the New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey-Cotton and Slavery-Location of Capital at Washington-Fugitive Slave Law of 1793—Admission of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, as Slave States-Purchase of Louisiana and Florida-Missouri Compromise-Seminole War-Annexation of TexasMexican War-Wilmot Proviso-California-Anti-Slavary Convention-Suppression of Right of Petition-John Quincy Adams-Judge Hoar's Mission-Abolition, Liberty and FreeSoil Parties-Compromise Measures of 1850...

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REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR KANSAS.

The Thirty-third Congress-Douglas Introduces the Kansas-Nebraska Bill-Debate upon it in the Senate-Douglas-ChaseSeward-Sumner-Toombs-Mason-Hunter-Slidell-Houston -Passage of the Bill-Struggle over its Passage in the House of Representatives -Benton-Richardson-Campbell-Washburne-Stephens of Georgia-Passage of the Bill through the House-Struggle Between Free and Slave State Men for Kansas -General Atchison-John Brown-Lane and Robinson.......... 48

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