The battle of principles
Subtitle: a study of the heroism and eloquence of the anti-slavery conflict.
Publisher: Negro Universities Press; Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
Notes: "Originally published in 1912."
Table of contents: title: Rise of American slavery: growth of the traffic.; title: Webster and Calhoun: the battle line in array.; title: Garrison and Phillips: anti-slavery agitation.; title: Charles Sumner: the appeal to educated men.; title: Horace Greeley: the appeal to the common people.; title: Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Brown: the conflict precipitated.; title: Lincoln and Douglas: influence of the great debate.; title: Reasons for secession: southern leaders.; title: Henry Ward Beecher: the appeal to England.; title: Heroes of battle: American soldiers and sailors.; title: The life of the people at home who supported the soldiers at the front.; title: Abraham Lincoln: the martyred President.