A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865 Book

	List of Illustrations
	Prologue
	Preface
	Introduction
	Notes on Contributors
	Suggestions for Further Reading
Ch. 1	The Historical Background for the Antebellum Slavery Debates, 1776-1865	1
	Stroud's Compendium of the Laws of Slavery	5
	Population Statistics from the U.S. Census for 1790-1860	6
	Summary from The Atlantic Slave Trade Project	7
	The European Origins of American Slavery	7
	Samuel Sewall (1632-1730) and John Saffin (1632-1710)	10
	The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial	12
	A Brief, Candid Answer to a Late Printed Sheet, Entitled, The Selling of Joseph	14
	John Woolman (1720-1772)	15
	Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes	16
Ch. 2	Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery	20
	The Declaration of Independence	21
	The Ordinance of 1787	23
	The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793	23
	The Missouri Compromise of 1820	25
	The Wilmot Proviso, 1847	25
	The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850	26
	The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution	30
	Slavery and the 1787 Constitution	31
	Frederick Douglas (c. 1818-1895)	33
	What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?	38
	Justice Joseph Story (1779-1845)	43
	A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of the United States	45
Ch. 3	Biblical Proslavery Arguments	51
	Thornton Stringfellow (1788-1869)	61
	A Brief Examination of the Scripture Testimony on the Institution of Slavery	63
	Slavery, Its Origin, Nature, and History Considered in the Light of Bible Teachings, Moral Justice, and Political Wisdom	67
	Alexander McCaine (1768-1856)	81
	Slavery Defended from Scripture against the Attacks of the Abolitionists	82
Ch. 4	Biblical Antislavery Arguments	88
	Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895)	91
	The Bible against Slavery	92
	James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)	97
	Slavery in the United States	99
	Alexander McLeod (1774-1833)	104
	Negro Slavery Unjustifiable	104
	Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877)	112
	The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation and the Future of the African Race in the United States	113
Ch. 5	The Economic Arguments Concerning Slavery	116
	Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865)	121
	The Political Economy of Slavery; or, The Institution Considered in Regard to Its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare	123
	George Fitzhugh (1806-1881)	126
	George Fitzhugh and the Economic Analysis of Slavery	128
	Sociology for the South; or, the Failure of Free Society	132
	Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters	136
	David Christy (1802-N.D.) and E. N. Elliott (N.D.)	141
	Introduction to Cotton Is King, and Proslavery Arguments	142
	Cotton Is King	143
	Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909)	146
	The Impending Crisis of the South and How to Meet It	148
	Impending Crisis Dissected	152
Ch. 6	Writers and Essayists in Conflict over Slavery	156
	Color, Caste, Denomination	162
	Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), "On being Brought from Africa to America"	162
	John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)	164
	The Slave Ships	165
	Massachusetts to Virginia	169
	Our Political Responsibility	171
	Justice and Expediency; or, Slavery Considered with a View to Its Rightful and Effectual Remedy, Abolition	173
	James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860)	177
	Slavery in the United States	179
	James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)	186
	The Abolitionists and Emancipation	189
	Politics and the Pulpit	190
	The Church and the Clergy	191
	The Church and the Clergy Again	192
	The Moral Argument against Slavery	192
	Daniel Webster	193
	Walt Whitman (1819-1892)	195
	Slavery and the Slave Trade	196
	New States: Shall They Be Slave or Free?	198
	American Workingmen, Versus Slavery	199
	Prohibition of Colored Persons	201
	The House of Friends	202
	Emerson, Thoreau, and Antislavery	203
	Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)	215
	Slavery in Massachusetts	217
	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)	225
	Lecture on Slavery	227
	Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) and Mary Eastman (1818-1880)	234
	Uncle Tom's Cabin	239
	Black Stereotypes in Uncle Tom's Cabin	241
	Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is	244
Ch. 7	Science in Antebellum America	249
	Notes on Stephen Jay Gould's Critique of George Morton's Race Theories	266
	White Supremacy and Negro Subordination	268
	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)	268
	Notes on the State of Virginia	270
	Henri Gregoire (1750-1831)	273
	On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes	273
	The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered	279
	O. S. Fowler (1809-1887)	283
	O. S. Fowler and Hereditary Descent	284
	Hereditary Descent	291
	Ethnology	297
	Theodore Parker (1810-1860) vs. John S. Rock (1825-1866) on the Anglo-Saxon and the African	299
	Some Thoughts on the Progress of America, and the Influence of Her Diverse Institutions	302
	The Present Aspect of Slavery in America	304
	Speech to the Boston Massacre Commemorative Festival	305
	Remarks to the Boston Massacre Commemorative Festival	308
	Josiah Nott and the American School of Ethnology	310
	Josiah Clark Nott (1804-1873)	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	314
	Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry	317
	The Negro Race: Its Ethnology and History	320
Ch. 8	The Abolitionist Crusade	327
	William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Crusade	327
	William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)	335
	An Address to the American Colonization Society, July 4, 1829	338
	Truisms	343
	The Constitution and the Union	345
	American Colorphobia	346
	Speech to the Fourth Annual National Woman's Rights Convention	347
	Editorial, The Liberator	348
	No Compromise with Slavery	349
	David Walker (1785-1830)	352
	Appeal	356
	Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)	363
	An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans	368
	William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)	379
	Slavery	380
	James McCune Smith (1813-1865)	391
	The Destiny of a People of Color	392
	Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879) and Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873)	395
	An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South	397
	An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States	401
	Catharine E. Beecher (1804-1878)	404
	An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females	405
	Letters to Catharine E. Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism	415
	American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses	417
	Cat-hawling	420
	Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), Arthur Tappan (1786-1865), and Lewis Tappan (1788-1873)	420
	The New York Abolitionists	422
	Speech in the Meeting of the New-York Anti-Slavery Society, Held in Peterboro, October 22, 1835	430
	Letter to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi, 1837	434
	Address of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society	435
	Speech on the Nebraska Bill, April 6, 1854	437
	Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)	441
	The Constitution, a Pro-Slavery Compact	443
	Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)	446
	The Unconstitutionality of Slavery	447
	Horace Mann (1796-1859)	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	451
	Alexander Crummell (1819-1898)	455
	An Address to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society	457
	Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864)	458
	Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error, v John F. A. Sandford	459
	Horace Bushnell (1802-1876)	462
	A Discourse on the Slavery Question, Delivered in the North Church, Hartford	464
	Charles Sumner (1811-1874)	467
	The Barbarism of Slavery	468
Ch. 9	Concluding Remarks and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)	474
	Democracy in America	478
	Index	485