CONTENTS

       Preface

  PROLOGUE     John Brown’s Raid

  CHAPTER 1    Slavery Comes to America

  CHAPTER 2    Slavery’s Great Foe—and Unintended Friend

  CHAPTER 3    The First Emancipation Proclamation

  CHAPTER 4    One Head Turning into Thirteen

  CHAPTER 5    The Forgotten Emancipator

  CHAPTER 6    Thomas Jefferson’s Nightmare

  CHAPTER 7    New England Preaches—and Almost Practices—Secession

  CHAPTER 8    How Not to Abolish Slavery

  CHAPTER 9    New England Rediscovers the Sacred Union

CHAPTER 10    Another Thomas Jefferson Urges Virginia to Abolish Slavery

CHAPTER 11    The Abolitionist Who Lost His Faith

CHAPTER 12    Abolitionism Divides and Conquers Itself

CHAPTER 13    Enter Old Man Eloquent

CHAPTER 14    The Slave Patrols

CHAPTER 15    The Trouble with Texas

CHAPTER 16    Slave Power Paranoia

CHAPTER 17    From Uncle Tom to John Brown

CHAPTER 18    The Real Uncle Tom and the Unknown South He Helped Create

CHAPTER 19    Free Soil for Free (White) Men

CHAPTER 20    The Whole World Is Watching

CHAPTER 21    An Ex-President Tries to Save the Union

CHAPTER 22    The Anguish of Robert E. Lee

CHAPTER 23    The End of Illusions

CHAPTER 24    The Third Emancipation Proclamation

CHAPTER 25    The Hunt After the Captain

    EPILOGUE    Lincoln’s Visitor

       Acknowledgments

       Notes

       Index