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The history of Negro servitude in Illinois : and of the slavery agitation in that state, 1719-1864 / by N. Dwight Harris.

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The history of Negro servitude in Illinois : and of the slavery agitation in that state, 1719-1864 / by N. Dwight Harris.

 
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Source: Original data: Harris, Norman Dwight,. The history of Negro servitude in Illinois : and of the slavery agitation in that state, 1719-1864 / by N. Dwight Harris.. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904.
 
Notes:   Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.
 
Subjects:   Slavery -- Illinois.
Afro-Americans -- Illinois.
Slavery -- Legal status of slaves in free states. -- United States
Illinois -- History.
Illinois
 
Location:   Illinois -- History.
 
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Front matter
Title page
Contents
Chapter I. The beginnings of slavery in the Illinois Country. 1719-1783
Chapter II. Slavery in the territory. 1800-1818
Chapter III. Slavery and the Constitution of 1818
Chapter IV. The contest for a convention. 1820-1824
Chapter V. Negro servitude under the Constitution of 1818
Chapter VI. The Lovejoy episode. Lovejoy in St. Louis
Chapter VII. The Lovejoy episode. Lovejoy in Alton
Chapter VIII. The slavery question in the courts
Chapter IX. The beginnings of the antislavery agitation
Chapter X. The origin of the Illinois Liberty Party and Free Soil Party
Chapter XI. Free soil, free Democratic, and Republican Parties. 1848-1856
Chapter XII. Later slavery agitation and the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Chapter XIII. The progress of sentiment on the negro question. 1840-1875
Appendices
Index

   
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