The decision-makers and the slavery question : Southern thought / George Fitzhugh -- The House divided / Abraham Lincoln -- "Relentless avarice...has chained...the agricultural states to the northern states" / Reuben Davis -- Resistance to Black Republican domination / Otho Robards Singleton -- "I will not curse John Brown" / Owen Lovejoy -- A declaration of the causes which induced the secession of South Carolina -- "Is there anything humiliating in a fair compromise?" / Stephen A. Douglas -- "And we are asked to compromise!" / Orrin S. Ferry -- "This conspiracy against the unity of the Republic" / Henry Wilson -- "The chief stone of the corner in our new edifice" / Alexander H. Stephens -- Twentieth-century historians and the problem of slavery : The approach of the irrepressible conflict / Charles A. Beard -- The natural limits of slavery expansion / Charles W. Ramsdell -- The slave power conspiracy / Russel B. Nye -- The peculiar institution / Kenneth M. Stampp -- The economics of slavery in the Ante-Bellum South / Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer -- Slavery, a problem in American institutional and intellectual life / Stanley Elkins

1. Slavery -- United States
2. United States -- History -- Civil War
3. 1861-1865 -- Causes