American Eloquence, Volume 2

A machine for cleaning cotton changed the course of a nation: in 1793, Whitney’s saw gin helped turn slavery from a system some hoped would fade into a fiercely defended engine of Southern prosperity.

In this 1896 study of American political history, Alexander Johnston follows the widening divide between North and South, from colonial slavery to the Missouri Compromise and the rise of immediate abolition. The volume brings the era’s arguments into view through figures including Rufus King, John Quincy Adams, and Wendell Phillips, as the question of slavery in the territories threatens to become a struggle over the nation’s future. How did a debate over where slavery could spread become a conflict neither section could ignore?

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