The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction

Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition		ix
Preface		xiii
Key to Abbreviations		xvii
Introduction		3
I.	The Election of 1860	9
II.	Secession and the Coming of War	29
III.	The Emancipation Issue: 1861	52
IV.	Emancipation and Public Opinion: 1861-1862	75
V.	The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment	99
VI.	The Negro: Innately Inferior or Equal?	134
VII.	Freedmen’s Education: 1861-1865	154
VIII.	The Creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau	178
IX.	Men of Color, to Arms!	192
X.	The Quest for Equal Rights in the North	221
XI.	The Ballot and Land for the Freedmen: 1861-1865	238
XII.	The Reelection of Lincoln	260
XIII.	Schism in the Ranks: 1864-1865	287
XIV.	Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction: 1865	308
XV.	The Fourteenth Amendment and the Election of 1866	341
XVI.	Military Reconstruction and Impeachment	367
XVII.	Education and Confiscation: 1865-1870	386
XVIII.	The Climax of the Crusade: the Fifteenth Amendment	417
Bibliographical Essay		433
Index		451