De Fontaine blames fanatic abolitionists for causing dissolution of the Union and for spoiling chances for gradual emancipation in the South.

This reference-like volume contains a history of American abolitionism including the ordinance of 1787, the compromise of 1820, the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War, the Wilmot Proviso, accounts of insurrections, abolition riots, slave ...

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