Contents
Preface
1. Ancestry and Antecedents
2. Professional Career, 1830–1842
3. Submerged Lands and States' Rights
4. Campbell and the Peculiar Institution
5. The Crisis at Midcentury
6. States' Rights Triumphant
7. States' Rights Justice, Part 1: Commerce, Contracts, and Quitman
8. States' Rights Justice, Part 2: Dred Scott and Sherman Booth
9. The War Years, Part 1: To Mitigate the Evils upon the Country
10. The War Years, Part 2: That We Should Not Be Utterly Destroyed
11. Reconstruction and Redemption
12. Postwar Palingenesis
13. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index