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Slavery in ancient Greece -- Slavery and the bible -- Hugo Grotius on slavery and the law of nations (1625) -- Somerset v. Stewart and its consequences (1771-1772) and its consequences -- John Wesley and the sins of slavery (1774) -- The declaration of independence and the issue of slavery (1776) -- Human nature and the constitution -- The compromises with respect to equality in the constitution (1787) -- The states in the constitution (1787) -- The federalist on slavery and the constitution (1787-1788) -- Hannah more and other poets on slavery (1798-1847) -- Suppression of the international slave trade -- John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun on the abolitionist petition to Congress -- The fugitive slave laws (1793, 1850) --Frederick Douglas and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) -- Chief Justice Taney and the Dred Scott Case (1857) -- The Dred Scott Case Dissenters (1857) -- Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati (1859, 1861) -- Stephen A. Douglas in Montgomery (November 1860) -- The ordinances of secession (1860-1861) -- The declarations of causes issued by seceding states (1860-1861) -- The confederate constitution (1861) -- Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War generals, and Slavery (1861-1865) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the emancipation proclamation (1862) -- The Civil War amendments (1865, 1868, 1870) --The lost cause transformed. |
