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]
IX.Henry Ward Beecher: The Appeal to
England[212]
X.Heroes of Battle: American Soldiers
and Sailors[242]
XI.The Life of the People at Home Who
Supported the Soldiers at the Front[263]
XII.Abraham Lincoln: The Martyred President[288]
Index[327]