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Contents


I. Rise of American Slavery: Growth of
the Traffic 11

II. Webster and Calhoun: The Battle Line
in Array 40

III. Garrison and Phillips: Anti-Slavery
Agitation 68

IV. Charles Sumner: The Appeal to Educated
Men 95

V. Horace Greeley: The Appeal to the
Common People 117

VI. Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Brown:
The Conflict Precipitated 136

VII. Lincoln and Douglas: Influence of the
Great Debate 160

VIII. Reasons for Secession: Southern Leaders 188