Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

by Beverley B. Munford

Adams, John Quincy, on action of anti-slavery societies, 1835, [174];

not an Abolitionist, [195];

views as to right of secession, [290].

Adams, Reverend Nehemiah, on assaults upon Virginia by Abolitionists, [48], [49];

on feeling in Virginia regarding slave traders, [141];

on reactionary effects of Abolitionists, [176].

African Slave Trade, early opposition to, in Virginia, [16];

letter of Colonel William Byrd against, [16];

petition of Virginia House of Burgesses against, 1772, [18];

arraignment of in original draft of Declaration of Independence, [19];