Cotton is king, and pro-slavery arguments: comprising the writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this important subject

An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females

Catharine Esther Beecher

Catharine Esther Beecher’s “An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American…

The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy

Annie Heloise Abel

Annie Heloise Abel’s work is a scholarly study of a largely ignored facet of Civil‑War history: the role of…

Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada

Henry A. Murray

Henry A. Murray’s Lands of the Slave and the Free is a sprawling travelogue‑essay that weaves together…

The Great Conspiracy, Complete

John Alexander Logan

Logan’s The Great Conspiracy Complete is a sweeping historical study that treats the Civil War era as a…

The slave trade: Slavery and color

Theodore D. Jervey

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

Hinton Rowan Helper