The battle of principles a study of the heroism and eloquence of the anti-slavery conflict

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hillis, Newell Dwight, 1858-1929 (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, Chicago : Fleming H. Revell Co [c1912]
Series:Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009810703506719
Table of Contents:
  • Rise of American slavery; growth of the traffic
  • Webster and Calhoun : the battle line in array
  • Garrison and Phillips : anti-slavery agitation
  • Charles Sumner : the appeal to educated men
  • Horace Greeley : the appeal to the common people
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Brown : the conflict precipitated
  • Lincoln and Douglas : influence of the great debate
  • Reasons for secession : southern leaders
  • Henry Ward Beecher : the appeal to England
  • Heroes of battle : American soldiers and sailors
  • The life of the people at home who supported the soldiers at the front
  • Abraham Lincoln : the martyred president.