Excerpt from A Political History of Slavery: Being an Account of the Slavery Controversy From the Earliest Agitations in the Eighteenth Century to the Close of the Reconstruction Period in America Incidentally there is much reference to all the other topics, but only as they contribute to the development Of this politi cal story. To read the work for the full record Of either Abolition propagandism or Secession, or for a consecutive and detailed narrative of the Civil War, would be disappointing. The author did not set himself to any of these tasks, and they had already been essayed, at any rate, in many volumes and by all sorts and conditions Of writers. What he did attempt is merely to use such facts in all these fields as are essential to the political history he was presenting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.