NSION;
AND THE FUTILITY OF THE MEANS USED TO PREVENT THE
EXTENSION OF THE INSTITUTION.

Emancipation in the United States begun; First
Abolition Society organized; Progress of
Emancipation; First Cotton Mill; Exclusion of
Slavery from N. W. Territory; Elements of Slavery
expansion; Cotton Gin invented; Suppression of the
Slave Trade; Cotton Manufactures commenced in
Boston; Franklin's Appeal; Condition of the Free
Colored People; Boston Prison-Discipline Society;
Darkening Prospects of the Colored People. 35

CHAPTER III.

State of public opinion in relation to colored
population; Southern views of Emancipation;
Influence of Jefferson's opinions; He opposed
Emancipation except connected with Colonization;
Negro equality not contemplated by the Fathers of
the Revolution; This proved by the resolutions of
their conventions; The true objects of the
opposition to the slave trade; Motives of British
Statesmen in forcing Slavery on the colonies;
Absurdity of supposing negro equality was
contemplated. 41

CHAPTER IV.

Dismal condition of Africa; Hopes of Wilberforce
disappointed; Organization of the American
Colonization Society; Its necessity, objects, and
policy; Public sentiment in its favor; Opposition
developes itself; Wm. Lloyd Garrison, James G.
Birney, Gerrit Smith; Effects of opposition;
Stimulants to Slavery; Exports of Cotton; England
sustaining American Slavery; Failure of the Niger
Expedition; Strength of Slavery; Political action;
Its failure; Its fruits. 48

CHAPTER V.

THE RELATIONS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS
OF OUR COUNTRY; TO THE DEMANDS OF COMMERCE; AND TO THE PRESENT
POLITICAL CRISIS.

Present condition of Slavery; Not an isolated
system; Its relations to other industrial
interests; To manufactures, commerce, trade, human
comfort; Its benevolent aspect; The reverse
picture; Immense value of tropical possessions to
Great Britain; England's attempted monopoly of
Manufactures; Her dependence on American Planters;
Cotto