Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Slavery and Revolution: Truths Not So Self-Evident
2. Slavery and the Constitution: Freedom Compromised
3. Stumbling Forward: Emancipation Proceeds in New England and Pennsylvania
4. Forward to the Past: The South’s “Cavalier Kingdom”
5. The Arithmetic of Emancipation: From the Purchase of Louisiana to the Compromise over Missouri
6. The Sunset of Northern Slavery: Freedom without Equality
7. The Wolf by the Ear: Slave Resistance, White Reaction, and the Growing Abolitionist Movement
8. Freedom’s Faith: Slavery Sectionalizes the Sacred
9. Slavery and Manifest Division: The Mexican Cession, FreeSoilers, and the Compromise of 1850
10. Rushing toward Disunion: Slavery and the Factious 1850s
11. Presidential Politics and the War for Slavery: The Southern Decision to Secede
12. Thenceforward, and Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation
13. Slavery’s Death Throes: Emancipation during the Civil War
14. Union Victory and the Thirteenth Amendment: Free at Last?
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index