The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (Illustrated)

Of all the questions which have interested and divided the people of the United States, none since the foundation of the Federal Union has been so important, so far-reaching, and so long contested as slavery. During the first half of the nineteenth century the other great national questions were nearly all economic--taxation, currency, banks, transportation, lands,--and they had a strong material basis, a flavor of self-interest; but though slavery had also an economic side, the reasons for...