A champion of the new "Classical" economics, Thomas Cooper publishes his University of South Carolina lectures from one of the first full courses in Political Economy taught in America.
James Hammond believes that it is natural for society to have different classes, and he argues that slavery is a foundation for a superior republican nation.
The pamphlet focuses on how the freedom of slaves would be detrimental to society. The author maintains his anti-abolitionist opinion citing examples of the West India Islands and its consequences of emancipation. Examples of the commerce, wealth,...
Wilbur Siebert, professor at Ohio State University, presents a history of the Underground Railroad based on his years of research on the American anti-slavery movement.
Van Rensselaer considers the religious and political implications of slavery and emancipation and considers solutions to the problems of slavery, including African colonization.
Hopkins, a Northern supporter of slavery, defends slavery as the will, and law, of God. He does not explain how slavery might be abolished without breaking the law of God, but he does acknowledge the possibility of Abolition.
To strike at the corruption in big city politics, Philadelphia lawyer Rufus Shapley chronicles in this satiric novel the unlikely rise of a penniless Irish immigrant from grog-shop sweeper to candidate for a seat in the U.S. Congress, all at the...
Compiled and edited by John Bassett Moore, this twelve-volume set of the collected letters and speeches of James Buchanan, spanning his entire political career, includes both personal and professional documents.
The result of a census taken by members of the Society of Friends in 1847, this work provides an examination of the socioeconomic situation of African Americans living in Philadelphia in the mid-1800s.
James J. Robbins, working from the notes of court reporters Arthur Cannon and Samuel Dalrymple, recounts the trial of Castner Hanway, who stood accused for his involvement in the Christiana Riot.