History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy.

History of the Compromise Measures of 1850--Cessation of the Agitation in Congress--The Fugitive Slave Law in the North--Repeal of the Missouri Compromise--Narrative of the Diff...

The Era of "Gags" and Congressional Petitions--John Quincy Adams; his Petition for Disunion--Legislation from 1835 to 1845--Annexation of Texas--The Liberty Party of 1840, Free...

The New England Anti-Slavery Society, 1832--More Newspapers and Tracts--New York City Anti-Slavery Society and the Incidents of Its Organization--The American Anti-Slavery Socie...

One of the principal agencies by which this extraordinary revolution in the public sentiment of the North has been brought about is the Church. The history of anti-slavery in th...

The Six Seceding States and date of their Separation--Organization of the Southern Congress--Names of Members--Election of President and Vice President, and Sketch of their Live...

Progress of Abolition in America--An Era of Reforms--Southern Efforts for Manumission--Various Plans of Emancipation that have been suggested--The first Abolition journal--New Y...

History of the Missouri Compromise, 1820--Benjamin Lundy and the "_Genius of Universal Emancipation_"--Insurrection at Charleston, S. C.--The result of agitation in Congress--Br...

One of the commanding characteristics of the present age is the spirit of agitation, collision and discord which has broken forth in every department of social and political lif...

The Ordinance of 1787--The Slave Population of 1790--Abolitionism at that time--The Importation of Slaves the Work of Northerners--Statistics of the Port of Charleston, S. C., f...