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The Negro and the Nation

by George Spring Merriam

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  1. 1Chapter I — How Slavery Grew in America
  2. 2Chapter II — The Acts of the Fathers
  3. 3Chapter III — Conflict and Compromise
  4. 4Chapter IV — The Widening Rift
  5. 5Chapter V — Calhoun and Garrison
  6. 6Chapter VI — Birney, Channing, and Webster
  7. 7Chapter VII — The Underlying Forces
  8. 8Chapter VIII — The Mexican War
  9. 9Chapter IX — How Deal With the Territories?
  10. 10Chapter X — The Compromise of 1850
  11. 11Chapter XI — A Lull and a Retrospect
  12. 12Chapter XII — Slavery as It Was
  13. 13Chapter XIII — The Struggle for Kansas
  14. 14Chapter XIV — “Fremont and Freedom”
  15. 15Chapter XV — Three Typical Southerners
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Some Northern Leaders
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Dred Scott and Lecompton
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — John Brown
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Abraham Lincoln
  20. 20Chapter XX — The Election of 1860
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Face to Face
  22. 22Chapter XXII — How They Differed
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — Why They Fought
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — On Niagara’s Brink — And Over
  25. 25Chapter XXV — The Civil War
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Emancipation Begun
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — Emancipation Achieved
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — Reconstruction: Experiments and Ideals
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — Reconstruction: The First Plan
  30. 30Chapter XXX — Congress and the “Black Codes”
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — Reconstruction: The Second Plan
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — Reconstruction: The Final Plan
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — Reconstruction: The Working Out
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — Three Troubled States
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — Reconstruction: The Last Act
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — Regeneration
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — Armstrong
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — Evolution
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — Ebb and Flow
  40. 40Chapter XL — Looking Forward

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