(1872-1877).

The fullest account of the subject, written by a contemporary.

The material was thrown together by an overworked statesman and lacks proportion.
Three volumes in the "American Nation Series" aim to combine the treatment of special topics of commanding interest with general political history.

A.B.

Hart's "Slavery and Abolition" (1906) gives an account of the origin of the controversy and carries the history down to 1841.