Written in Paris as the Civil War began, this book by a French Protestant statesman argued that the North’s resistance to secession was the rising of a great people against slavery, and predicted that the conflict would lead to emancipation. Mary L. Booth’s translation was widely read in the North; this revised edition adds Gasparin’s plea for peace between England and the United States after the Trent affair.
An influential foreign voice for the Union cause and a document of European antislavery opinion. Download the free EPUB.