Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

by Beverley B. Munford

Page 162, footnote, for "MacMaster," read "McMaster."

Page 214, line 12, for "Cathargo," read "Carthago."

Page 242, footnote, for "Vol. IV." read "Vol. VI."

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CONTENTS

[The Author's Preface]

Part I
Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery
and Secession Defined
I.	Introduction	[1]
II.	Virginia—Slavery and Secession	[10]
Part II
Virginia Did Not Secede in Order to Extend Slavery
into the Territories, or to Prevent its Threatened
Destruction Within Her Own Borders
III.	Virginia's Colonial Record with Respect to Slavery	[15]
IV.	Virginia's Statute Abolishing the African Slave Trade
	and Her Part in Enacting the Ordinance of 1787	[25]
V.	Slavery and the Federal Constitution—
	Virginia's Position	[29]
VI.	The Foreign Slave Trade—
	Virginia's Efforts to Abolish It	[33]
VII.	Some Virginia Statutes with Respect to Slavery	[41]
VIII.	The Movement in the Virginia Legislature of 1832
	to Abolish Slavery in the State	[45]
IX.	The Northern Abolitionists and Their Reactionary
	Influence upon Anti-Slavery Sentiment in Virginia	[51]
X.	Negro Colonization—State and National	[60]
XI.	Instances of Colonization by Individual Slaveholders	[66]
XII.	Emancipation and Colonization—Views of
	Jefferson, Clay and Lincoln	[75]
XIII.	Anti-Slavery Sentiments of Prominent Virginians	[82]
XIV.	Anti-Slavery Sentiments of Prominent Virginians.
	Continued	[91]
XV.	Anti-Slavery Sentiments of Prominent Virginians.
	Concluded	[96]
XVI.	Specimens of Deeds and Wills Emancipating Slaves	[104]
XVII.	Specimens of Deeds and Wills Emancipating Slaves.
	Concluded	[114]
XVIII.	The Small Number of Slaveholders in Virginia,
	as Compared with Her Whole White Population	[125]
XIX.	The Injurious Effects of Slavery upon the
	Prosperity of Virginia	[128]
XX.	The Custom of Buying and Selling Slaves—
	Virginia's Attitude	[139]
XXI.	The Custom of Buying and Selling Slaves—
	Virginia's Attitude. Concluded	[147]
XXII.	Small Proportion of Slaveholders among Virginia
	Soldiers	[154]
XXIII.	Some of the Almost Insuperable Difficulties which
	Embarrassed Every Plan of Emancipation	[159]
XXIV.	Some of the Almost Insuperable Difficulties which
	Embarrassed Every Plan of Emancipation. Continued	[164]
XXV.	Some of the Almost Insuperable Difficulties which
	Embarrassed Every Plan of Emancipation. Concluded	[175]
XXVI.	The Status of the Controversy Regarding Slavery at
	the Time Virginia Seceded from the Union	[185]
XXVII.	The Status of the Controversy Regarding Slavery at
	the Time Virginia Seceded from the Union. Concluded	[193]
XXVIII.	The Attitude of Certain Northern States	[201]
XXIX.	The Attitude of Certain Northern States. Concluded	[206]
XXX.	The Abolitionists	[214]
XXXI.	The Abolitionists and Disunion	[217]
XXXII.	The Abolitionists and Disunion. Concluded	[225]
XXXIII.	The Emancipation Proclamations and the Virginia
	People	[230]
Part III
Virginia Did Not Secede From a Wanton Desire to
Destroy the Union, or From Hostility to the
Ideals of its Founders
XXXIV.	Virginia's Part in the Revolution	[237]
XXXV.	Virginia's Part in Making the Union under the
	Constitution	[242]
XXXVI.	Virginia's Efforts to Promote Reconciliation
	and Union in 1861	[248]
XXXVII.	The People of Virginia Declare for Union	[255]
Part IV
The Attempt of the Federal Government to Coerce
the Cotton States—The Proximate Cause of
Virginia's Secession
XXXVIII.	The Coercion of the Cotton States—
	Virginia's Position	[263]
XXXIX.	The Contest in the Virginia Convention for and
	against Secession	[269]
XL.	The Contest in the Virginia Convention for and
	against Secession. Concluded	[277]
XLI.	The Attempted Reinforcement of Fort Sumter and
	its Significance	[284]
XLII.	The Attempt to Coerce the Cotton States Impels
	Virginia to Secede	[290]
XLIII.	Conclusion	[301]
	Bibliography	[305]
	Index	[313]

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PART I

VIRGINIA'S ATTITUDE TOWARD SLAVERY