CONTENTS

	CHAPTER	PAGE
	Introduction	[3]
I.	Secession and Its Doctrine	[15]
II.	Emancipation Prior to 1831	[37]
III.	The New Abolitionists	[56]
IV.	Feeling in the South—1835	[77]
V.	Anti-Abolition at the North	[84]
VI.	A Crisis and a Compromise	[93]
VII.	Efforts for Peace	[128]
VIII.	Incompatibility of Slavery and Freedom	[147]
IX.	Four Years of War	[180]
X.	Reconstruction, Lincoln-Johnson Plan and Congressional	[208]
XI.	The South under Self-Government	[229]
	Index	[245]

THE ABOLITION CRUSADE AND ITSCONSEQUENCES