| List of Illustrations | p. xiii |
| Prologue | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xxi |
| Introduction | p. xxvii |
| Notes on Contributors | p. lxi |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. lxiii |
| The Historical Background for the Antebellum Slavery Debates, 1776-1865 | p. 1 |
| Stroud's Compendium of the Laws of Slavery | p. 5 |
| Population Statistics from the U.S. Census for 1790-1860 | p. 6 |
| Summary from The Atlantic Slave Trade Project | p. 7 |
| The European Origins of American Slavery | p. 7 |
| Samuel Sewall (1632-1730) and John Saffin (1632-1710) | p. 10 |
| The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial | p. 12 |
| A Brief, Candid Answer to a Late Printed Sheet, Entitled, The Selling of Joseph | p. 14 |
| John Woolman (1720-1772) | p. 15 |
| Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes | p. 16 |
| Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery | p. 20 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 21 |
| The Ordinance of 1787 | p. 23 |
| The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 | p. 23 |
| The Missouri Compromise of 1820 | p. 25 |
| The Wilmot Proviso, 1847 | p. 25 |
| The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | p. 26 |
| The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution | p. 30 |
| Slavery and the 1787 Constitution | p. 31 |
| Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895) | p. 33 |
| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | p. 38 |
| Justice Joseph Story (1779-1845) | p. 43 |
| A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of the United States | p. 45 |
| Biblical Proslavery Arguments | p. 51 |
| Thornton stringfellow (1788-1869) | p. 61 |
| A Brief Examination of the Scripture Testimony on the Institution of Slavery | p. 63 |
| Slavery, Its Origin, Nature, and History Considered in the Light of Bible Teachings, Moral Justice, and Political Wisdom | p. 67 |
| Alexander Mccaine (1768-1856) | p. 81 |
| Slavery Defended from Scripture against the Attacks of the Abolitionists | p. 82 |
| Biblical Antislavery Arguments | p. 88 |
| Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) | p. 91 |
| The Bible against Slavery | p. 92 |
| James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) | p. 97 |
| Slavery in the United States | p. 99 |
| Alexander Mcleod (1774-1833) | p. 104 |
| Negro Slavery Unjustifiable | p. 104 |
| Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) | p. 112 |
| The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation and the Future of the African Race in the United States | p. 113 |
| The Economic Arguments Concerning Slavery | p. 116 |
| Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865) | p. 121 |
| The Political Economy of Slavery; or, The Institution Considered in Regard to Its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare | p. 123 |
| George Fitzhugh (1806-1881) | p. 126 |
| George Fitzhugh and the Economic Analysis of Slavery | p. 128 |
| Sociology for the South; or, the Failure of Free Society | p. 132 |
| Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters | p. 136 |
| David Christy (1802-N.D.) and E. N. Elliott (N.D.) | p. 141 |
| Introduction to Cotton Is King, and Proslavery Arguments | p. 142 |
| Cotton Is King | p. 143 |
| Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) | p. 146 |
| The Impending Crisis of the South and How to Meet It | p. 148 |
| Impending Crisis Dissected | p. 152 |
| Writers and Essayists in Conflict over Slavery | p. 156 |
| Color, Caste, Denomination | p. 162 |
| Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), "On Being Brought from Africa to America" | p. 162 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) | p. 164 |
| The Slave Ships | p. 165 |
| Massachusetts to Virginia | p. 169 |
| Our Political Responsibility | p. 171 |
| Justice and Expediency; or, Slavery Considered with a View to Its Rightful and Effectual Remedy, Abolition | p. 173 |
| James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) | p. 177 |
| Slavery in the United States | p. 179 |
| James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) | p. 186 |
| The Abolitionists and Emancipation | p. 189 |
| Politics and the Pulpit | p. 190 |
| The Church and the Clergy | p. 191 |
| The Church and the Clergy Again | p. 192 |
| The Moral Argument against Slavery | p. 192 |
| Daniel Webster | p. 193 |
| Walt Whitman (1819-1892) | p. 195 |
| Slavery and the Slave Trade | p. 196 |
| New States: Shall They Be Slave or Free? | p. 198 |
| American Workingmen, Versus Slavery | p. 199 |
| Prohibition of Colored Persons | p. 201 |
| The House of Friends | p. 202 |
| Emerson, Thoreau, and Antislavery | p. 203 |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | p. 215 |
| Slavery in Massachusetts | p. 217 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | p. 225 |
| Lecture on Slavery | p. 227 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) and mary Eastman (1818-1880) | p. 234 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | p. 239 |
| Black Stereotypes in Uncle Tom's Cabin | p. 241 |
| Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is | p. 244 |
| Science in Antebellum America | p. 249 |
| Notes on Stephen Jay Gould's Critique of George Morton's Race Theories | p. 266 |
| White Supremacy and Negro Subordination | p. 268 |
| Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | p. 268 |
| Notes on the State of Virginia | p. 270 |
| Henri Gregoire (1750-1831) | p. 273 |
| On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes | p. 273 |
| The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered | p. 279 |
| O. S. Fowler (1809-1887) | p. 283 |
| O. S. Fowler and Hereditary Descent | p. 284 |
| Hereditary Descent | p. 291 |
| Ethnology | p. 297 |
| Theodore Parker (1810-1860) vs. John S. Rock (1825-1866) on the Anglo-Saxon and the African | p. 299 |
| Some Thoughts on the Progress of America, and the Influence of Her Diverse Institutions | p. 302 |
| The Present Aspect of Slavery in America | p. 304 |
| Speech to the Boston Massacre Commemorative Festival | p. 305 |
| Remarks to the Boston Massacre Commemorative Festival | p. 308 |
| Josian Nott and the American School of Ethnology | p. 310 |
| Josiah Clark Nott (1804-1873) | p. 311 |
| Types of Mankind; or, Ethnological Researches Based upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races and upon Their Natural Geographical, Philological, and Biblical History | p. 314 |
| Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry | p. 317 |
| The Negro Race: Its Ethnology and History | p. 320 |
| The Abolitionist Crusade | p. 327 |
| William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Crusade | p. 327 |
| William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) | p. 335 |
| An Address to the American Colonization Society, July 4, 1829 | p. 338 |
| Truisms | p. 343 |
| The Constitution and the Union | p. 345 |
| American Colorphobia | p. 346 |
| Speech to the Fourth Annual National Woman's Rights Convention | p. 347 |
| Editorial, The Liberator | p. 348 |
| No Compromise with Slavery | p. 349 |
| David Walker (1785-1830) | p. 352 |
| Appeal | p. 356 |
| Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) | p. 363 |
| An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans | p. 368 |
| William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) | p. 379 |
| Slavery | p. 380 |
| James Mccune Smith (1813-1865) | p. 391 |
| The Destiny of a People of Color | p. 392 |
| Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879) and Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873) | p. 395 |
| An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South | p. 397 |
| An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States | p. 401 |
| Catharine E. Beecher (1804-1878) | p. 404 |
| An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females | p. 405 |
| Letters to Catharine E. Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism | p. 415 |
| American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses | p. 417 |
| Cat-hawling | p. 420 |
| Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), Arthur Tappan (1786-1865), and Lewis Tappan (1788-1873) | p. 420 |
| The New York Abolitionists | p. 422 |
| Speech in the Meeting of the New-York Anti-Slavery Society, Held in Peterboro, October 22, 1835 | p. 430 |
| Letter to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi, 1837 | p. 434 |
| Address of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | p. 435 |
| Speech on the Nebraska Bill, April 6, 1854 | p. 437 |
| Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) | p. 441 |
| The Constitution, a Pro-Slavery Compact | p. 443 |
| Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) | p. 446 |
| The Unconstitutionality of Slavery | p. 447 |
| Horace Mann (1796-1859) | p. 449 |
| Speech Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of Dissolution of the Union | p. 451 |
| Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) | p. 455 |
| An Address to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | p. 457 |
| Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) | p. 458 |
| Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error, v John F. A. Sandford | p. 459 |
| Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) | p. 462 |
| A Discourse on the Slavery Question, Delivered in the North Church, Hartford | p. 464 |
| Charles Sumner (1811-1874) | p. 467 |
| The Barbarism of Slavery | p. 468 |
| Concluding Remarks and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) | p. 474 |
| Democracy in America | p. 478 |
| Index | p. 485 |
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