Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER XXIX
The Negro In America and the Slavery Conflict
The Negro in America--The First Cargo--Beginning of the Slave Traffic--As a Laborer--Increase in Numbers--Slavery; its Different Character in Different States--Political Disturbances--Agitation and Agitators--John Brown--War and How it Emancipated the Slave--The Free Negro--His Rapid Progress 425