The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Negro and the Nation, by George S. Merriam This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Author: George S. Merriam Release Date: February 14, 2008 [EBook #24613] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NEGRO AND THE NATION *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE NEGRO AND THE NATION A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement BY GEORGE S. MERRIAM HASKELL HOUSE PUBLISHERS Ltd. Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books NEW YORK. N. Y. 10012 1970 First Published 1906 HASKELL HOUSE PUBLISHERS Ltd. Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books 280 LAFAYETTE STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. 10012 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-95441 Standard Book Number 8383-0994-1 Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. How Slavery Grew in America 1 II. The Acts of the Fathers 8 III. Conflict and Compromise 21 IV. The Widening Rift 28 V. Calhoun and Garrison 46 VI. Birney, Channing and Webster 58 VII. The Underlying Forces 67 VIII. The Mexican War 71 IX. How to Deal with the Territories 79 X.