History of Negro Slavery in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in that State ...
Publisher: University of Chicago
Published: 1904
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Table of contents: title: -The Beginnings of Slavery in the Illinois Country, 1719-1783; title: -Slavery in the Illinois Territory, 1800-1818; title: -Slavery and the Constitution of 1818; title: -The Contest for a Convention, 1820-1824; title: -Negro Servitude under the Constitution of 1818; title: -The Lovejoy Episode – in St. Louis; title: -The Lovejoy Episode (continued) – in Alton; title: -The Slavery Question in the Courts, 1819-1864; title: -The Beginnings of the Anti-slavery Agitation; title: -The Origin of the Illinois Liberty Party and the Free Soil Party; title: -The Free Soil, Free Democratic, and Republican Parties, 1848-1856; title: -Later Slavery Agitation and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates; title: -The Progress of Sentiment on the Negro Question, 1840-1875; title: Appendices; title: -Bibliography; title: -Specimen Copies of Slave Papers; title: -Data Relative to the Contest of 1823-24; title: -Table of Abolition Votes