A nation divided -- States' rights -- The bonds of slavery Why the Civil War? -- The big issue: slavery -- Why did the south want slavery? -- Slavery in the states -- Slavery in literature -- The Dred Scott Decision -- Frederick Douglass -- Bleeding Kansas -- John Brown's Raid -- The election of Abraham Lincoln.
Summary
Introduces readers to the history of slavery and explores the moral and economic reasons this issue was so inflammatory between the Northern and Southern states. Also covers the abolition movement and political developments such as Bleeding Kansas and the US Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.
