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Author Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.

Title Writings on slavery and the American Civil War / Harriet Martineau ; edited by Deborah Anna Logan.

Publication Info. DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2002]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973.7 M385W    Check Shelf
Description xxiv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Society in America -- pt. I. American Travel Writings -- Society in America, 1837 -- Introduction -- Citizenship of People of Colour -- Morals of Economy -- Morals of Slavery -- Morals of Commerce -- Morals of Economy II -- Retrospect of Western Travel, 1838 -- First Sight of Slavery -- Country Life in the South -- City Life in the South -- Restless Slaves -- New Orleans -- Signs of the Times in Massachusetts -- Three Letters on America -- Harriet Martineau to the Spectator, 14 October 1837 -- Harriet Martineau to the Spectator, 21 October 1837 -- Harriet Martineau to Abby Kelley, 20 June 1838 -- Martyr Age of the United States, 1839 -- pt. II. Newspapers and Periodicals -- Liberty Bell, 1839-1858 -- "Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease," 1845 -- London's Dally News, 1852-1866 -- "Harriet Beecher Stowe," 12 May 1853 -- "Fugitive Slave Law," 8 June 1855 -- "Kansas," 10 October 1856 -- "Dred Scott and States' Rights," 18 June 1857 -- "Liberia," 20 November 1858 -- "Black Insurrections; Harper's Ferry," 2 November 1859 -- "The Burial of John Brown," 3 January 1860 -- "Election of Abraham Lincoln," 22 November 1860 -- "Anarchy in the South," 29 January 1861 -- "Emancipation Proclamation," 10 October 1862 -- "William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator," 9 January 1866 -- Spectator, 1858 -- "American Domestic Policy at the Centre and Circumference," 15 May 1858 -- "What Is the South?" 28 August 1858 -- "The Hour of Proof," 9 October 1858 -- "The World's Interest in the West," 27 November 1858 -- National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1859-1862 -- "John Brown," 17 December 1859 -- "John Brown; South's Political Posturing," 24 December 1859 -- "Death of John Brown; Bias in the Times," 28 January 1860 -- "The Morrill Tariff," 1 June 1861 -- "The Morrill Tariff," 7 September 1861 -- "Mason and Slidell: The Trent Affair," 28 December 1861 -- "The Trent Affair; War with England Averted," 15 February 1862 -- "The Final Break," 1 March 1862 -- Once a Week, 1861-1862 -- "New Phase of the American Strife," 30 November 1861 -- "Much Right and Much Wrong," 25 January 1862 -- "The Slave Difficulty in America," 1 February 1862 -- "Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia", 24 May 1862 -- pt. III. Journal Articles -- Interpreting the Sectional Divide, 1854-1857 -- "Freedom, or Slavery?" 1854 -- History of the American Compromises, 1856 -- "Manifest Destiny' of the American Union," 1857 -- On the Eve of War, 1858-1860 -- "The Slave-Trade in 1858," 1858 -- "The United States under the Presidentship of Mr. Buchanan," 1860 -- War and Reconstruction, 1862-1864 -- "The Brewing of the American Storm," 1862 -- "The Negro Race in America," 1864. App. Itinerary of Harriet Martineau's American Tour.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-343) and index.
Subject 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.
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 -- Political and social views.
Added Author Logan, Deborah Anna, 1951-
ISBN 0875802923 (acid-free paper)
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