Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

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CONTENTS (abridged list)
The Author's Preface
Part I
Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery
and Secession Defined
I. Introduction
II. Virginia—Slavery and Secession
Part II
Virginia Did Not Secede in Order to Extend Slavery
into the Territories, or to Prevent its Threatened
Destruction Within Her Own Borders
III. Virginia's Colonial Record with Respect to Slavery
IV. Virginia's Statute Abolishing the African Slave Trade
and Her Part in Enacting the Ordinance of 1787
V. Slavery and the Federal Constitution—
Virginia's Position
VI. The Foreign Slave Trade—
Virginia's Efforts to Abolish It
VII. Some Virginia Statutes with Respect to Slavery
VIII. The Movement in the Virginia Legislature of 1832
to Abolish Slavery in the State
IX. The Northern Abolitionists and Their Reactionary
Influence upon Anti-Slavery Sentiment in Virginia
X. Negro Colonization—State and National
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Part IV
The Attempt of the Federal Government to Coerce
the Cotton States—The Proximate Cause of
Virginia's Secession
XXXVIII. The Coercion of the Cotton States—
Virginia's Position
XXXIX. The Contest in the Virginia Convention for and
against Secession
XL. The Contest in the Virginia Convention for and
against Secession. Concluded
XLI. The Attempted Reinforcement of Fort Sumter and
its Significance
XLII. The Attempt to Coerce the Cotton States Impels
Virginia to Secede
XLIII. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index