Merriam traces slavery from its growth in the colonies through the compromises of the founders, the clash of Calhoun and Garrison, Webster and Channing, the Mexican War and the sectional crisis, to emancipation, Reconstruction and the prospects of Black Americans after it. His vocabulary and some of his judgements are those of a white liberal writer of 1906.
A thoughtful antislavery history, valuable as a period view of the American race question. Download the free EPUB.