Chapter I. | Introductory | |
1. | Plan of the Monograph | 1 |
2. | The Rise of the English Slave-Trade | 1 |
Chapter II. | The Planting Colonies | |
3. | Character of these Colonies | 7 |
4. | Restrictions in Georgia | 7 |
5. | Restrictions in South Carolina | 9 |
6. | Restrictions in North Carolina | 11 |
7. | Restrictions in Virginia | 12 |
8. | Restrictions in Maryland | 14 |
9. | General Character of these Restrictions | 15 |
Chapter III. | The Farming Colonies | |
10. | Character of these Colonies | 16 |
11. | The Dutch Slave-Trade | 17 |
12. | Restrictions in New York | 18 |
13. | Restrictions in Pennsylvania and Delaware | 20 |
14. | Restrictions in New Jersey | 24 |
15. | General Character of these Restrictions | 25 |
Chapter IV. | The Trading Colonies | |
16. | Character of these Colonies | 27 |
17. | New England and the Slave-Trade | 27 |
18. | Restrictions in New Hampshire | 29 |
19. | Restrictions in Massachusetts | 30 |
20. | Restrictions in Rhode Island | 33 |
21. | Restrictions in Connecticut | 37 |
22. | General Character of these Restrictions | 37 |
Chapter V. | The Period of the Revolution, 1774-1787 | |
23. | The Situation in 1774 | 39 |
24. | The Condition of the Slave-Trade | 40 |
25. | The Slave-Trade and the "Association" | 41 |
26. | The Action of the Colonies | 42 |
27. | The Action of the Continental Congress | 44 |
28. | Reception of the Slave-Trade Resolution | 45 |
29. | Results of the Resolution | 47 |
30. | The Slave-Trade and Public Opinion after the War | 48 |
31. | The Action of the Confederation | 50 |
Chapter VI. | The Federal Convention, 1787 | |
32. | The First Proposition | 53 |
33. | The General Debate | 54 |
34. | The Special Committee and the "Bargain" | 58 |
35. | The Appeal to the Convention | 59 |
36. | Settlement by the Convention | 61 |
37. | Reception of the Clause by the Nation | 62 |
38. | Attitude of the State Conventions | 65 |
39. | Acceptance of the Policy | 68 |
Chapter VII. | Toussaint L'Ouverture and Anti-Slavery Effort, 1787-1807 | |
40. | Influence of the Haytian Revolution | 70 |
41. | Legislation of the Southern States | 71 |
42. | Legislation of the Border States | 72 |
43. | Legislation of the Eastern States | 73 |
44. | First Debate in Congress, 1789 | 74 |
45. | Second Debate in Congress, 1790 | 75 |
46. | The Declaration of Powers, 1790 | 78 |
47. | The Act of 1794 | 80 |
48. | The Act of 1800 | 81 |
49. | The Act of 1803 | 84 |
50. | State of the Slave-Trade from 1789 to 1803 | 85 |
51. | The South Carolina Repeal of 1803 | 86 |
52. | The Louisiana Slave-Trade, 1803-1805 | 87 |
53. | Last Attempts at Taxation, 1805-1806 | 91 |
54. | Key-Note of the Period | 92 |
Chapter VIII. | The Period of Attempted Suppression, 1807-1825 | |
55. | The Act of 1807 | 94 |
56. | The First Question: How shall illegally imported Africans be disposed of? | 96 |
57. | The Second Question: How shall Violations be punished? | 102 |
58. | The Third Question: How shall the Interstate Coastwise Slave-Trade be protected? | 104 |
59. | Legislative History of the Bill | 105 |
60. | Enforcement of the Act | 108 |
61. | Evidence of the Continuance of the Trade | 109 |
62. | Apathy of the Federal Government | 112 |
63. | Typical Cases | 117 |
64. | The Supplementary Acts, 1818-1820 | 118 |
65. | Enforcement of the Supplementary Acts, 1818-1825 | 123 |
Chapter IX. | The International Status of the Slave-Trade, 1783-1862 | |
66. | The Rise of the Movement against the Slave-Trade, 1788-1807 | 131 |
67. | Concerted Action of the Powers, 1783-1814 | 133 |
68. | Action of the Powers from 1814 to 1820 | 134 |
69. | The Struggle for an International Right of Search, 1820-1840 | 136 |
70. | Negotiations of 1823-1825 | 138 |
71. | The Attitude of the United States and the State of the Slave-Trade | 141 |
72. | The Quintuple Treaty, 1839-1842 | 143 |
73. | Final Concerted Measures, 1842-1862 | 146 |
Chapter X. | The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, 1820-1850 | |
74. | The Economic Revolution | 151 |
75. | The Attitude of the South | 154 |
76. | The Attitude of the North and Congress | 155 |
77. | Imperfect Application of the Laws | 158 |
78. | Responsibility of the Government | 161 |
79. | Activity of the Slave-Trade, 1820-1850 | 162 |
Chapter XI. | The Final Crisis, 1850-1870 | |
80. | The Movement against the Slave-Trade Laws | 168 |
81. | Commercial Conventions of 1855-1856 | 169 |
82. | Commercial Conventions of 1857-1858 | 170 |
83. | Commercial Convention of 1859 | 172 |
84. | Public Opinion in the South | 173 |
85. | The Question in Congress | 175 |
86. | Southern Policy in 1860 | 176 |
87. | Increase of the Slave-Trade from 1850 to 1860 | 178 |
88. | Notorious Infractions of the Laws | 180 |
89. | Apathy of the Federal Government | 183 |
90. | Attitude of the Southern Confederacy | 188 |
91. | Attitude of the United States | 191 |
Chapter XII. | The Essentials in the Struggle | |
92. | How the Question Arose | 194 |
93. | The Moral Movement | 195 |
94. | The Political Movement | 196 |
95. | The Economic Movement | 197 |
96. | The Lesson for Americans | 197 |
| Appendices | |
A. | A Chronological Conspectus of Colonial and State Legislation restricting the African Slave-Trade, 1641-1787 | 201 |
B. | A Chronological Conspectus of State, National, and International Legislation, 1788-1871 | 230 |
C. | Typical Cases of Vessels engaged in the American Slave-Trade, 1619-1864 | 289 |
D. | Bibliography | 299 |
| Index | 327 |