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

List of Illustrations xiii Prologue xv Preface xxi Introduction xxvii Notes on Contributors lxi Suggestions for Further Reading lxiii The Historical Background for the Antebellum Slavery Debates, 1776-1865 1(19) Stroud's Compendium of the Laws of Slavery 5(1) Population Statistics from the U.S. Census for 1790-1860 6(1) Summary from The Atlantic Slave Trade Project 7(1) The European Origins of American Slavery 7(3) Arthur Kinney Samuel Sewall (1632-1730) and John Saffin (1632-1710) 10(5) The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial 12(2) Samuel Sewall A Brief, Candid Answer to a Late Printed Sheet, Entitled, The Selling of Joseph 14(1) John Saffin John Woolman (1720-1772) 15(5) Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes 16(4) Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery 20(31) The Declaration of Independence 21(2) The Ordinance of 1787 23(1) The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 23(2) The Missouri Compromise of 1820 25(1) The Wilmot Proviso, 1847 25(1) The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 26(4) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 30(1) Slavery and the 1787 Constitution 31(2) Frederick Douglass (c. 1818--1895) 33(10) What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? 38(5) Justice Joseph Story (1779-1845) 43(8) A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of the United States 45(6) Biblical Proslavery Arguments 51(37) Thornton Stringfellow (1788-1869) 61(20) A Brief Examination of the Scripture Testimony on the Institution of Slavery 63(4) Slavery, Its Origin, Nature, and History Considered in the Light of Bible Teachings, Moral Justice, and Political Wisdom 67(14) Alexander Mccaine (1768-1856) 81(7) Slavery Defended from Scripture against the Attacks of the Abolitionists 82(6) Biblical Antislavery Arguments 88(28) Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) 91(6) The Bible against Slavery 92(5) James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) 97(7) Slavery in the United States 99(5) Alexander Mcleod (1774-1833) 104(8) Negro Slavery Unjustifiable 104(8) Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) 112(4) The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation and the Future of the African Race in the United States 113(3) The Economic Arguments Concerning Slavery 116(40) Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865) 121(5) The Political Economy of Slavery; or, The Institution Considered in Regard to Its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare 123(3) George Fitzhugh (1806-1881) 126(2) George Fitzhugh and the Economic Analysis of Slavery 128(13) Melba Jensen Sociology for the South; or, the Failure of Free Society 132(4) Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters 136(5) David Christy (1802-N.D.) and E. N. Elliott (N.D.) 141(5) Introduction to Cotton Is King, and Proslavery Arguments 142(1) E. N. Elliot Cotton Is King 143(3) David Christy Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) 146(10) The Impending Crisis of the South and How to Meet It 148(4) Hinton Rowan Helper Impending Crisis Dissected 152(4) Samuel M. Wolfe Writers and Essayists in Conflict over Slavery 156(93) Color, Caste, Denomination 162(1) Emily Dickinson Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), ``On Being Brought from Africa to America'' 162(2) John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) 164(13) The Slave Ships 165(4) Massachusetts to Virginia 169(2) Our Political Responsibility 171(2) Justice and Expendiency; or, Slavery Considered with a View to Its Rightful and Effectual Remedy, Abolition 173(4) James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) 177(9) Slavery in the United States 179(7) James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) 186(9) The Abolitionists and Emancipation 189(1) Politics and the Pulpit 190(1) The Church and the Clergy 191(1) The Church and the Clergy Again 192(1) The Moral Argument against Slavery 192(1) Daniel Webster 193(2) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 195(8) William Pannapacker Slavery and the Slave Trade 196(2) New States: Shall They Be Slave or Free? 198(1) American Workingmen, Versus Slavery 199(2) Prohibition of Colored Persons 201(1) The House of Friends 202(1) Emerson, Thoreau, and Antislavery 203(12) Len Gougeon Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) 215(10) Slavery in Massachusetts 217(8) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 225(9) William Pannapacker Lecture on Slavery 227(7) Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) and Mary Eastman (1818-1880) 234(7) Uncle Tom's Cabin 239(2) Harriet Beecher Stowe Black Stereotypes in Uncle Tom's Cabin 241(8) Sandra C. Duvivier Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is 244(5) Mary Eastman Science in Antebellum America 249(78) Notes on Stephen Jay Gould's Critique of George Morton's Race Theories 266(2) Adam Linker White Supremacy and Negro Subordination 268(1) J. H. Van Evrie Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 268(5) Notes on the State of Virginia 270(3) Henri Gregoire (1750-1831) 273(10) On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes 273(6) The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered 279(4) Frederick Douglass O. S. Fowler (1809-1887) 283(1) O. S. Fowler and Hereditary Descent 284(15) Christopher Hanlon Hereditary Descent 291(6) Ethnology 297(2) James Russell Lowell Theodore Parker (1810-1860) Vs. John S. Rock (1825-1866) On the Anglo-Saxon and the African 299(11) Dean Grodzins Some Thoughts on the Progress of America, and the Influence of Her Diverse Institutions 302(2) Theodore Parker The Present Aspect of Slavery in America 304(1) Theodore Parker Speech to the Boston Massacre Commemorative Festival 305(3) John S. Rock Remarks to the Boston Massacre Commemorative Festival 308(2) Theodore Parker Josiah Nott and the American School of Ethnology 310(1) Josiah Clark Nott (1804-1873) 311(16) 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(3) Josiah Clark Nott George Gliddon Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry 317(3) Josiah Clark Nott George Gliddon The Negro Race: Its Ethnology and History 320(7) Josiah Nott The Abolitionist Crusade 327(147) William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Crusade 327(8) William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) 335(17) An Address to the American Colonization Society, July 4, 1829 338(5) Truisms 343(2) The Constitution and the Union 345(1) American Colorphobia 346(1) Speech to the Fourth Annual National Woman's Rights Convention 347(1) Editorial, The Liberator 348(1) No Compromise with Slavery 349(3) David Walker (1785-1830) 352(11) Appeal 356(7) Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) 363(16) An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans 368(11) William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) 379(12) Slavery 380(11) James Mccune Smith (1813-1865) 391(4) The Destiny of a People of Color 392(3) Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879) and Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873) 395(9) An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South 397(4) Angelina Emily Grimke An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States 401(3) Sarah Moore Grimke Catharine E. Beecher (1804-1878) 404(16) An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females 405(10) Catharine E. Beecher Letters to Catharine E. Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism 415(2) Angelina Emily Grimke American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 417(3) Theodore D. Weld Cat-hawling 420(1) Roy Sunderland Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), Arthur Tappan (1786-1865), and Lewis Tappan (1788-1873) 420(2) Melba Jensen The New York Abolitionists 422(19) Melba Jensen Speech in the Meeting of the New-York Anti-Slavery Society, Held in Peterboro, October 22, 1835 430(4) Gerrit Smith Letter to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi, 1837 434(1) Gerrit Smith Address of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 435(2) Arthur Tappan Speech on the Nebraska Bill, April 6, 1854 437(4) Gerrit Smith Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) 441(5) The Constitution, a Pro-Slavery Compact 443(3) Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) 446(3) The Unconstitutionality of Slavery 447(2) Horace Mann (1796-1859) 449(6) 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(4) Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) 455(3) An Address to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 457(1) Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) 458(4) Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error, v John F. A. Sandford 459(3) Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) 462(5) A Discourse on the Slavery Question, Delivered in the North Church, Hartford 464(3) Charles Sumner (1811-1874) 467(7) The Barbarism of Slavery 468(6) Concluding Remarks and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) 474(11) Democracy in America 478(7) Alexis de Tocqueville Index 485