Rise of American slavery : growth of the traffic -- Webster and Calhoun : the battle line in array -- Garrison and Phillips : anti-slavery agitation -- Charles Sumner : the appeal to educated men -- Horace Greeley : the appeal to the common people -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown : the conflict precipitated -- Lincoln and Douglas : influence of the great debate -- Reasons for secession : southern leaders -- Henry Ward Beecher : the appeal to England -- Heroes of battle : American soldiers and sailors -- The life of the people at home who supported the soldiers at the front -- Abraham Lincoln : the martyred President.
