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Front Matter How Slavery Grew in America The Acts of the Fathers Conflict and Compromise The Widening Rift Calhoun and Garrison Birney, Channing, and Webster The Underlying Forces The Mexican War How to Deal with Territories The Compromise of 1850 A Lull and a Retrospect Slavery as it Was The Struggle for Kansas "Fremont and Freedom" Three Typical Southerners Some Northern Leaders Dred Scott and Lecompton John Brown Abraham Lincoln The Election of 1860 Face to Face How they Differed Why They Fought On Niagara's Brink—and Over The Civil War Emancipation Begins Enancipation Achieved Reconstruction: Experiments Reconstruction: First Plan Congress and the Black Codes Reconstruction: Second Plan Reconstruction: Final Plan Reconstruction: Working Out Three Troubled States Reconstruction: The Last Act Regeneration Armstrong Evolution Ebb and Flow Looking Forward

Negro and the Nation - G. S. Merriam



This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of American Negros in the years before and after their emancipation. The severe political conflicts in the years leading up to the Civil War and during the reconstruction period afterward are explained thoroughly, and several short biographies of important negro political leaders are given.

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