Reflections on Slavery and the Constitution

Preface
Part One
Chapter 1: Slavery in Ancient Greece
Chapter 2: Slavery and the Bible
Chapter 3: Hugo Grotius (1625)
Chapter 4: Somerset v. Stewart and Its Consequences (1771-1772)
Chapter 5: John Wesley and the Sins of Slavery (1774)
Chapter 6: The Declaration of Independence and the Issue of Slavery (1776)
Chapter 7: Human Nature and the Constitution
Chapter 8: The Compromises with Respect to Equality in the Constitution (1787)
Chapter 9: The States in the Constitution (1787)
Chapter 10: The Federalist on Slavery and the Constitution (1787-1788)
Chapter 11: Hannah More and Other Poets on Slavery (1798-1847)
Chapter 12: Suppression of the International Slave Trade
Chapter 13: John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun
On the Abolitionist Petition to Congress
Part Two
Chapter 1: The Fugitive Slave Laws (1793, 1850)
Chapter 2: Frederick Douglas and Uncle Tom???s Cabin (1852)
Chapter 3: Chief Justice Taney and the Dred Scott Case (1857)
Chapter 4: The Dred Scott Case Dissenters (1857)
Chapter 5: Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati (1859, 1861)
Chapter 6: Stephen A. Douglas in Montgomery (November 1860)
Chapter 7: The Ordinances of Secession (1860-1861)
Chapter 8: The Declarations of Causes Issued by Seceding States (1860-1861)
Chapter 9: The Confederate Constitution (1861)
Chapter 10: Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War Generals, and Slavery (1860-1865)
Chapter 11: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Chapter 12: The Civil War Amendments (1865, 1868, 1870)
Chapter 13: The Lost Cause Transformed
Appendices
Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence (1776)
Appendix B: The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Appendix C: The United States Constitution (1787)
Appendix D: The Amendments to the United States Constitution (1791-1992)
Appendix E: The Confederate Constitution (1861)
Appendix F: On the Relations of Slaves to Masters Who Considered Them ???Nothings???
Appendix G: Roster of Cases and other Materials Draw On