Writings on slavery and the American Civil War /
Martineau, Harriet,1802-1876.
Logan, Deborah Anna,1951-
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press,
c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-343) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii -- Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Society in America ix -- TPartI: THE AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITINGS 3 -- Society in America, 1837 5 -- Introduction 9 -- Citizenship of People of Colour 10 -- Morals of Economy 13 -- Morals of Slavery 14 -- Morals of Commerce 21 -- Morals of Economy II 23 -- Retrospect of Western Travel, 1838 24 -- First Sight of Slavery 25 -- Country Life in the South 28 -- City Life in the South 29 -- Restless Slaves 32 -- New Orleans 36 -- Signs of the Times in Massachusetts 37 -- Three Letters on America 39 -- Harriet Martineau to the Spectator, 14 October 1837 39 -- Harriet Martineau to the Spectator, 21 October 1837 41 -- Harriet Martineau to Abby Kelley, 20 June 1838 42 -- The Martyr Age of the United States, 1839 44 -- CPartII: NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS 81 -- The Liberty Bell, 1839-1858 83 -- "Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease," 1845 85 -- London's Daily News, 1852-1866 89 -- "Harriet Beecher Stowe," 12 May 1853 90 -- "Fugitive Slave Law," 8June 1855 94 -- "Kansas," 10 October 1856 97 -- "Dred Scott and States' Rights," 18 June 1857 99 -- "Liberia," 20 November 1858 102 -- "Black Insurrections; Harper's Ferry," 2 November 1859 105 -- "The Burial of John Brown," 3 January 1860 108 -- "Election of Abraham Lincoln," 22 November 1860 112 -- "Anarchy in the South," 29 January 1861 115 -- "Emancipation Proclamation," 10 October 1862 119 -- "William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator," 9 January 1866 122 -- The Spectator, 1858 126 -- "American Domestic Policy at the Centre and Circumference," 15 May 1858 127 -- "What Is the South?" 28 August 1858 131 -- "The Hour of Proof," 9 October 1858 134 -- "The World's Interest in the West," 27 November 1858 136 -- The National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1859-1862 140 -- "John Brown," 17 December 1859 143 -- "John Brown; South's Political Posturing," 24 December 1859 145 -- "Death of John Brown; Bias-in the Times," 28 January 1860 147 -- "The Morrill Tariff," 1 June 1861 150 -- "The Morrill Tariff," 7 September 1861 151 -- "Mason and Slidell: The Trent Affair," 28 December 1861 153 -- "The Trent Affair; War with England Averted," 15 February 1862 156 -- "The Final Break," 1 March 1862 162 -- Once a Week, 1861-1862 165 -- "New Phase of the American Strife," 30 November 1861 166 -- "Much Right and Much Wrong," 25 January 1862 173 -- "The Slave Difficulty in America," 1 February 1862 180 -- "Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia," 24 May 1862 186 -- Part III: JOURNAL ARTICLES 193 -- Interpreting the Sectional Divide, 1854-1857 195 -- "Freedom, or Slavery?" 1854 195 -- A History of the American Compromises, 1856 202 -- "'Manifest Destiny' of the American Union," 1857 223 -- On the Eve of War, 1858-1860 242 -- "The Slave-Trade in 1858," 1858 242 -- "The United States under the Presidentship of Mr. Buchanan," 1860 271 -- War and Reconstruction, 1862-1864 286 -- "The Brewing of the American Storm," 1862 286 -- "The Negro Race in America," 1864 295 -- Appendix: Itinerary of Harriet Martineau's American Tour 315 -- Notes 319 -- Works Cited 341 -- Index 345.
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Slavery
Antislavery movements