The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest Book

	Series Editor's Preface
	Introduction
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
Ch. I	Introductory. - The Case Stated
Ch. II	The Economic Basis of Slavery
Ch. III	Internal Organization of Slave Societies
Ch. IV	Tendencies of Slave Societies
Ch. V	Internal Development of Slave Societies
Ch. VI	External Policy of Slave Societies
Ch. VII	The Career of the Slave Power
Ch. VIII	The Designs of the Slave Power
Ch. IX	General Conclusions
App. A	Southern tactics in Europe
App. B	Slave labour
App. C	Failure of the South in manufactures
App. D	The "mean whites"
App. E	The Slave aristocracy in Brazil
App. F	Industrial revolution in Virginia
App. G	Competition of free and slave labour in the South
App. H	Popular education in Virginia
App. I	Mr. Stirling's argument for the extinction of slavery through economic causes
App. J	Economic strength of slavery
App. K	Spirit of the Slave laws
App. L	Recent importation of African slaves into the South
App. M	The Philosophy of Secession