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Title: The Anti-Slavery Crusade
Volume 28 In The Chronicles Of America Series

Author: Jesse Macy

Editor: Allen Johnson

Posting Date: January 15, 2009 [EBook #3034]
Release Date: January, 2002

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE ***

Produced by The James J. Kelly Library of St. Gregory's
University, Dianne Bean, Doug Levy, and Alev Akman

THE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE,

A CHRONICLE OF THE GATHERING STORM

By Jesse Macy

New Haven: Yale University Press

Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.

London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press

1919

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE CRUSADE

III. EARLY CRUSADERS

IV. THE TURNING-POINT

V. THE VINDICATION OF LIBERTY

VI. THE SLAVERY ISSUE IN POLITICS

VII. THE PASSING OF THE WHIG PARTY

VIII. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

IX. BOOKS AS ANTI-SLAVERY WEAPONS

X. "BLEEDING KANSAS"

XI. CHARLES SUMNER

XII. KANSAS AND BUCHANAN

XIII. THE SUPREME COURT IN POLITICS

XIV. JOHN BROWN

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION

The Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln marks the beginning
of the end of a long chapter in human history. Among the earliest
forms of private property was the ownership of slaves. Slavery as an
institution had persisted throughout the ages, always under protest,
always provoking opposition, insurrection, social and civil war, and
ever bearing within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Among the
historic powers of the world the United States was the last to uphold
slavery, and when, a few years after Lincoln's proclamation, Brazil
emancipated her slaves, property in man as a legally recognized
institution came to an end in all civilized countries.

Emancipation in the United States marked the conclusion of a century of
continuous debate, in which the entire history of western civilization
was traversed. The literature of American