Slavery in the United States [1836]: It's a Long Road to the Mountaintop<br>By James K. Paulding
- by Bruce E. McKinney
As is sometimes the case, the publisher, in this case Harper has included a catalogue of books they were then offering.
Here are the chapters including the descriptions provided by the author. In brackets is the number of words in each section. Read any section and return from time to time to read others.
Introduction
(1,441 words)
Chapter I
(5,296 words)
Of the Opposition of Slavery to the Law of God
Chapter II
(2,309 words)
Of the Opposition of Slavery to the Law and the Rights of Nature,
As asserted by Advocates of immediate Emancipation
Chapter III
(2,676 words)
Of Emancipation and its Consequences, admitting its practicality
Chapter IV
(3,557 words)
Of Amalgamation, and a Community of Social and Political Rights
Chapter V
(3,447 words)
Of the Social and Political Relations that would subsist between the Whites and the
Blacks in case of the Emancipation of the latter.
Chapter VI
(2,958 words)
Of the Right of Property in Slaves
Chapter VII
(6,909 words)
Of the alleged Disgrace reflected on the People of the United States by the
Existence and Continuance of Slavery.
Chapter VIII
(7,676 words)
Of the Laws for the Government of Slaves
Chapter IX
(23,895 words)
Of the Domestic and Social relations between the Master and Slave in the United
States, and of the relative condition of African Freemen; African Slaves in their
Native Land; American Slaves; English Labourers; European Peasantry, and
Various Classes of White Men in the United States.
Chapter X
(6,789 words)
Of the Fanaticism of the Abolitionists, and its hostility to Religion, Morals, Liberty,
Patriotism, and Social Virtues.