Writings on slavery and the American Civil War
By: Harriet Martineau ; edited by Deborah Anna Logan.
Contributors: Logan, Deborah Anna, 1951-
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 -- Political and social views.; Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii; title: Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Society in America ix; title: TPartI: THE AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITINGS 3; title: Society in America, 1837 5; title: Introduction 9; title: Citizenship of People of Colour 10; title: Morals of Economy 13; title: Morals of Slavery 14; title: Morals of Commerce 21; title: Morals of Economy II 23; title: Retrospect of Western Travel, 1838 24; title: First Sight of Slavery 25; title: Country Life in the South 28; title: City Life in the South 29; title: Restless Slaves 32; title: New Orleans 36; title: Signs of the Times in Massachusetts 37; title: Three Letters on America 39; title: Harriet Martineau to the Spectator, 14 October 1837 39; title: Harriet Martineau to the Spectator, 21 October 1837 41; title: Harriet Martineau to Abby Kelley, 20 June 1838 42; title: The Martyr Age of the United States, 1839 44; title: CPartII: NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS 81; title: The Liberty Bell, 1839-1858 83; title: "Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease," 1845 85; title: London's Daily News, 1852-1866 89; title: "Harriet Beecher Stowe," 12 May 1853 90; title: "Fugitive Slave Law," 8June 1855 94; title: "Kansas," 10 October 1856 97; title: "Dred Scott and States' Rights," 18 June 1857 99; title: "Liberia," 20 November 1858 102; title: "Black Insurrections; Harper's Ferry," 2 November 1859 105; title: "The Burial of John Brown," 3 January 1860 108; title: "Election of Abraham Lincoln," 22 November 1860 112; title: "Anarchy in the South," 29 January 1861 115; title: "Emancipation Proclamation," 10 October 1862 119; title: "William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator," 9 January 1866 122; title: The Spectator, 1858 126; title: "American Domestic Policy at the Centre and Circumference," 15 May 1858 127; title: "What Is the South?" 28 August 1858 131; title: "The Hour of Proof," 9 October 1858 134; title: "The World's Interest in the West," 27 November 1858 136; title: The National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1859-1862 140; title: "John Brown," 17 December 1859 143; title: "John Brown; South's Political Posturing," 24 December 1859 145; title: "Death of John Brown; Bias-in the Times," 28 January 1860 147; title: "The Morrill Tariff," 1 June 1861 150; title: "The Morrill Tariff," 7 September 1861 151; title: "Mason and Slidell: The Trent Affair," 28 December 1861 153; title: "The Trent Affair; War with England Averted," 15 February 1862 156; title: "The Final Break," 1 March 1862 162; title: Once a Week, 1861-1862 165; title: "New Phase of the American Strife," 30 November 1861 166; title: "Much Right and Much Wrong," 25 January 1862 173; title: "The Slave Difficulty in America," 1 February 1862 180; title: "Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia," 24 May 1862 186; title: Part III: JOURNAL ARTICLES 193; title: Interpreting the Sectional Divide, 1854-1857 195; title: "Freedom, or Slavery?" 1854 195; title: A History of the American Compromises, 1856 202; title: "'Manifest Destiny' of the American Union," 1857 223; title: On the Eve of War, 1858-1860 242; title: "The Slave-Trade in 1858," 1858 242; title: "The United States under the Presidentship of Mr. Buchanan," 1860 271; title: War and Reconstruction, 1862-1864 286; title: "The Brewing of the American Storm," 1862 286; title: "The Negro Race in America," 1864 295; title: Appendix: Itinerary of Harriet Martineau's American Tour 315; title: Notes 319; title: Works Cited 341; title: Index 345.