Slavery in the United States
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition: -- Preface -- Part I: SLAVERY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- 1. The New World and Slavery -- 2. Negroes and Slavery -- 3. The "Peculiar Institution" -- 4. Effects of Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Eras -- 5. Stabilizing the Slave System -- 6. Spanish and American Slavery Compared -- 7. Slavery as a "Positive Good" -- 8. Slavery as a Way of Life -- 9. The Challenge of Freedom -- 10. The Verdict of War -- 11. The Continuing Debate -- Part II: READINGS -- 1. Andrew Jackson Seeks a Runaway -- 2. Indian Slavers -- 3. The Slave Trader: His Life and Outlook -- 4. James Fenimore Cooper On Slavery in New York -- 5. Frederick Law Olmsted: An Antislavery Opinion in North Carolina -- 6. Emancipation Proclamation: What It Did and Did Not Do -- 7. Codes" and the Negro: Their Purpose and Variety -- 8. The Northern Response to Freedmen -- 9. Conditions Affecting Slavery: Illinois and the West Indies -- 10. A Slave Defends Slavery -- 11. John J. Audubon Encounters a Runaway -- 12. John C. Calhoun Responds to Abolitionists -- 13. The Free Negro: His Enslavement -- 14. Colonization and the Free Negro -- 15. Colonization and the Slave -- 16. The Folklore of Rebellion: The Appeal of Nat Turner -- 17. A Foreign View: Charles Dickens on Slavery -- 18. Frances Anne Kemble:An Insider's View of Slavery? -- 19. William Wells Brown:Pictures of Slave Life -- 20. William Still:Chronicles of Enslavement -- 21. Harriet Beecher Stowe:The Sale of Uncle Tom -- 22. The Border States: A Slave's Wedding -- 23. Slavery for Northerners: A Proposal -- 24. The Proslavery Answer to British Criticism -- 25. Henry Clay: What Is to Be Done? -- 26. Frederick Douglass on"The Slavery Party" -- 27. Hinton Rowan Helper: Slavery Renounced