Narrative and Critical History of America Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...an account of parties from /7S7 (Columbia, S. C, 1830, 2d ed.). Hodgson's Cradle of the Confederacy emphasizes its New England origin. Cf. Tyler's Tylers, i. 285; and Harper's Monthly, xxiv. p. 807. There are the beginnings of one in J. R. Bartlett's Literature of the Civil War, and in such classified Catalogues as that of the Boston Athenaeum (pp. 2746-56). The chief other collections of books are those in Cornell University library, including those brought together by Samuel J. May; in the Boston Public Library, including the library of Theodore Parker: in Harvard College library, including the books of Charles Sumner, T. W. Higginson and others; and in the Public Library of Providence, from the collection of C. F. Harris. Mr. Daniel Parish of New York city has a large gathering. In newspaper files the libraries of Yale College and the Philadelphia Library Company are particularly strong. 5 The subject is also necessarily interwoven, by one of the colored race, in George W. Williams's History of the Negro Race in America, /big-1880 (New York, 1S83), in such chapters as "Slavery a political and legal problem, 1775-1S00," " Restriction and extension, 1800-1825," "Anti-slavery methods and efforts," etc. Lalor's Cyclopaedia takes up the phases with the most useful references to sources, as in " Abolition" (i. 7), "Fugitive Slave Laws " (ii. 315), "Slavery in the U. S." (iii. 725). Of the general histories, Yon Hoist is probably the most useful to the student, through the foot-notes of his chapters (vol. i. 7, 8, 9), tracing the development down and through the Missouri Compromise, and (ii. ch. 2) 1850, --the most extensive book on the subject, but without references to authorities, and sometimes warml...