CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. How Slavery Grew in America 1 II. The Acts of the Fathers 8 III. Conflict and Compromise 21 IV. The Widening Rift 28 V. Calhoun and Garrison 46 VI. Birney, Channing and Webster 58 VII. The Underlying Forces 67 VIII. The Mexican War 71 IX. How to Deal with the Territories 79 X. The Compromise of 1850 84 XI. A Lull and a Retrospect 92 XII. Slavery as It Was 97 XIII. The Struggle for Kansas 112 XIV. "Fremont and Freedom" 122 XV. Three Typical Southerners 132 XVI. Some Northern Leaders 140 XVII. Dred Scott and Lecompton 147 XVIII. John Brown 158 XIX. Abraham Lincoln 172 XX. The Election of 1860 185 XXI. Face to Face 197 XXII. How They Differed 205 XXIII. Why They Fought 211 XXIV. On Niagara's Brink—and Over 221 XXV. The Civil War 237 XXVI. Emancipation Begun 248 XXVII. Emancipation Achieved 258 XXVIII. Reconstruction: Experiments and Ideals 267 XXIX. Reconstruction: The First Plan 274 XXX. Congress and the "Black Codes" 281 XXXI. Reconstruction: The Second Plan 294 XXXII. Reconstruction: The Final Plan 306 XXXIII. Reconstruction: The Working Out 316 XXXIV. Three Troubled States 331 XXXV. Reconstruction: The Last Act 344 XXXVI. Regeneration 354 XXXVII. Armstrong 362 XXXVIII. Evolution 371 XXXIX. Ebb and Flow 382 XL. Looking Forward 391 Index 413 THE SEA-WITCH: OR, THE AFRICAN QUADROON A STORY OF THE SLAVE COAST. By Lieutenant Murray CONTENTS I. OUTWARD BOUND. II. CAPTAIN WILL RATLIN. III. THE GALE. IV. BRAMBLE PARK. V. THE NAVAL OFFICER. VI. THE WRECK. VII. THE SEA WITCH. VIII. THE QUADROON. IX. THE ATTACK. X. THE DUEL. XI. THE HUES OF LOVE. XII. THE CONFLICT. XIII. THE TRIAL. XIV. THE BROTHERS. XV. THE ESCAPE. XVI. THE CANNIBALS. XVII. THE POISONED BARB. XVIII. THE DENOUEMENT. TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE NARRATIVE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP, A CITIZEN OF NEW-YORK, KIDNAPPED IN WASHINGTON CITY IN 1841, AND RESCUED IN 1853 FROM A COTTON PLANTATION NEAR THE RED RIVER, IN LOUISIANA. Buffalo: Derby, Orton And Mulligan. 1853 CONTENTS page. Editor's Preface, 15 CHAPTER I. Introductory—Ancestry—The Northup Family—Birth and Parentage—Mintus Northup—Marriage with Anne Hampton—Good Resolutions—Champlain Canal—Rafting Excursion to Canada—Farming—The Violin—Cooking—Removal to Saratoga—Parker and Perry—Slaves and Slavery—The Children—The Beginning of Sorrow, 17 CHAPTER II. The two Strangers—The Circus Company—Departure from Saratoga—Ventriloquism and Legerdemain—Journey to New-York—Free Papers—Brown and Hamilton—The haste to reach the Circus—Arrival in Washington—Funeral of Harrison—The Sudden Sickness—The Torment of Thirst—The Receding Light—Insensibility—Chains and Darkness, 28 CHAPTER III.