Albert Bushnell Hart

Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States. “It is not the purpose of this volume to give a detailed account of Mr. Chase’s private life, nor even to describe fully his long, eventful, and varied public career, but rather to present him as the central figure in three episodes which are of great historic importance, – the Western political anti-slavery movement, the financial measures of the Civil War, and the process of judicial reconstruction.” -author’s Preface

Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States. “It is not the purpose of this volume to give a detailed account of Mr. Chase’s private life, nor even to describe fully his long, eventful, and varied public career, but rather to present him as the central figure in three episodes which are of great historic importance, – the Western political anti-slavery movement, the financial measures of the Civil War, and the process of judicial reconstruction.” -author’s Preface

Examines the twelve major wars the United States has fought, looking at how the consequences of each conflict impact America today.

1. American Social Characteristics (1830-1860) 2. The Intellectual Life (1830-1840) 3. The Era of Transportation (1830-1850) 4. Slavery as an Economic System (1607-1860) 5. The Slave-Holder and his Neighbors (1830-1860) 6. The Free Negro (1830-1860) 7. Plantation Life (1830-1860) 8. Control of the Slaves (1830-1860) 9. The Slave-Market (1830-1860) 10. The Defence of Slavery (1830-1860) 11. The Anti-Slavery Movement (1624-1840) 12. Garrisonian Abolition (1830-1845) 13. Non-Garrisonian Abolition (1830-1860) 14. The Abolition Propaganda (1831-1840) 15. The Abolitionist and the Slave (1830-1840) 16. The Abolitionist and the Slave-Holder (1830-1860) 17. Abolition and Government (1830-1840) 18. Anti-Slavery in Congress (1831-1840) 19. Interstate and International Relations of Slavery (1822-1842) 20. Panic of 1837 (1837-1841) 21. The Effects of Abolition (1830-1860) 22. Critical Essay on Authorities