An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of t

A collection of 180 county court petitions designed to offer as broad a selection as possible and include the voices of all participants: black and white, slave

Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh disagreed on virtually every major issue of the day. On slavery, women's rights, and the preservation of the Union their

Slavery and southern society as documented in individual petitions