Table of Contents: “…Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue in Maine -- Young Rufus King -- Newburyport, the law, and the general court -- King in the Confederation Congress -- the crisis of the Confederation -- The Philadelphia Convention -- Ratification in Massachusetts -- New York and the United States Senate -- Domestic issues, 1790-1792 -- Neutrality and Genet -- King and Jay's treaty -- England: a new scene -- Anglo-American issues -- France, revolution, and the New World -- Home to frustrated federalists -- Country gentleman -- King and the War of 1812 -- Senator and Federalists standard bearer -- Federalist patriarch -- A final mission -- Rufus King: an appraisal.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue in Maine -- Young Rufus King -- Newburyport, the law, and the general court -- King in the Confederation Congress -- the crisis of the Confederation -- The Philadelphia Convention -- Ratification in Massachusetts -- New York and the United States Senate -- Domestic issues, 1790-1792 -- Neutrality and Genet -- King and Jay's treaty -- England: a new scene -- Anglo-American issues -- France, revolution, and the New World -- Home to frustrated federalists -- Country gentleman -- King and the War of 1812 -- Senator and Federalists standard bearer -- Federalist patriarch -- A final mission -- Rufus King: an appraisal.…”
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Table of Contents: “…--Heart of the West Wind.--Rufus.--King Florimonde and the winged horse.--The land beyond the fire.…”

Table of Contents: “…Marshall, April 3, 1799 -- Speech in Congress on the case of Thomas Nash, March 7, 1800 -- Negotiations with Great Britain : To Rufus King, August 23, 1800 -- Anti-British sentiment : To Rufus King, August 23, 1800 -- American complaints against Britain : To Rufus King, September 20, 1800 -- "The strength of Jacobinism" : To Richard Peters, October 30, 1800 -- Prosecutions under the Sedition Act : To St. …”

Table of Contents: “…from Observations of Rufus King, on the Missouri Bill / Rufus King -- Christian slave / Anonymous -- from An oration on the abolition of the slave trade / Jeremiah Gloucester -- from Africa / Ann Evans -- African chief / William Cullen Bryant -- Slave-ship -- Enfranchisement -- Tea-table talk -- Think of our country's glory / Elizabeth Margaret Chandler -- To the first slave ship -- Slavery: written for the celebration of the Fourth of July / Lydia Sigourney -- On liberty and slavery -- Slave's complaint / George Moses Horton -- from Life and adventures of Robert Voorhis, the hermit of Massachusetts / Robert Voorhis -- from Walker's appeal in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world / David Walker -- African women / Anonymous -- To the public -- Universal emancipation -- Truisms -- Song of the abolitionist / William Lloyd Garrison -- To William Lloyd Garrison -- Hunters of men -- Yankee girl -- Clerical oppressors -- Slave ships -- Branded hand / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Dream -- Another dream / Anonymous -- Family circle-No 8 / Anonymous -- Jumbo and Zairee -- Slavery's pleasant homes / Lydia Maria Francis Child -- from Slavery / William Ellery Channing -- from Slavery in the United States: a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man / Charles Ball -- To the slaveholders of the south -- from The sinfulness of slaveholding in all circumstances; tested by reason and scripture / James Gillespie Birney -- from An address delivered before the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia / James Forten -- from An epistle to the clergy of the southern states narrative and testimony of Sarah M Grimke / Sarah Moore Grimke -- from An appeal to the women of the nominally free states / Angelina Emily Grimke -- Word from a petitioner, to congress -- Tocsin -- Plymouth rock -- I would not live always / John Pierpont -- from A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery / Moses Roper -- from Narrative of James Williams: an American slave: who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama / James Williams -- Mother Coelia / Edmund Quincy -- from Letter of Gerrit Smith to Hon Henry Clay / Gerrit Smith -- from American slavery as it is: testimony of a thousand witnesses / Theodore Dwight Weld -- Pinda:-a true tale / Maria Weston Chapman -- Lonely hearted / Harriet Winslow -- from Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, appellants, vs Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the Schooner Amistad / John Quincy Adams -- Dialogue on slavery / Daniel Henshaw -- from The narrative of Lunsford Lane, formerly of Raleigh, N C / Lunsford Lane -- Slave's dream -- Slave in the dismal swamp -- Slave singing at midnight -- Quadroon girl -- Witnesses / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Duty and safety of emancipation / John Neal -- Arouse, New-England's sons / M L Gardner -- Address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Hymn 17 / Jairus Lincoln -- Am I not a sister? …”

Table of Contents: “…From Observations of Rufus King, on the Missouri Bill / Rufus King -- Christian slave / Anonymous -- from An oration on the abolition of the slave trade / Jeremiah Gloucester -- from Africa / Ann Evans -- African chief / William Cullen Bryant -- Slave-ship -- Enfranchisement -- Tea-table talk -- Think of our country's glory / Elizabeth Margaret Chandler -- To the first slave ship -- Slavery: written for the celebration of the Fourth of July / Lydia Sigourney -- On liberty and slavery -- Slave's complaint / George Moses Horton -- from Life and adventures of Robert Voorhis, the hermit of Massachusetts / Robert Voorhis -- from Walker's appeal in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world / David Walker -- African women / Anonymous -- To the public -- Universal emancipation -- Truisms -- Song of the abolitionist / William Lloyd Garrison -- To William Lloyd Garrison -- Hunters of men -- Yankee girl -- Clerical oppressors -- Slave ships -- Branded hand / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Dream -- Another dream / Anonymous -- Family circle-No 8 / Anonymous -- Jumbo and Zairee -- Slavery's pleasant homes / Lydia Maria Francis Child -- from Slavery / William Ellery Channing -- from Slavery in the United States: a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man / Charles Ball -- To the slaveholders of the south -- from The sinfulness of slaveholding in all circumstances; tested by reason and scripture / James Gillespie Birney -- from An address delivered before the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia / James Forten -- from An epistle to the clergy of the southern states narrative and testimony of Sarah M Grimke / Sarah Moore Grimke -- from An appeal to the women of the nominally free states / Angelina Emily Grimke -- Word from a petitioner, to congress -- Tocsin -- Plymouth rock -- I would not live always / John Pierpont -- from A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery / Moses Roper -- from Narrative of James Williams: an American slave: who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama / James Williams -- Mother Coelia / Edmund Quincy -- from Letter of Gerrit Smith to Hon Henry Clay / Gerrit Smith -- from American slavery as it is: testimony of a thousand witnesses / Theodore Dwight Weld -- Pinda:-a true tale / Maria Weston Chapman -- Lonely hearted / Harriet Winslow -- from Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, appellants, vs Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the Schooner Amistad / John Quincy Adams -- Dialogue on slavery / Daniel Henshaw -- from The narrative of Lunsford Lane, formerly of Raleigh, N C / Lunsford Lane -- Slave's dream -- Slave in the dismal swamp -- Slave singing at midnight -- Quadroon girl -- Witnesses / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Duty and safety of emancipation / John Neal -- Arouse, New-England's sons / M L Gardner -- Address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Hymn 17 / Jairus Lincoln -- Am I not a sister? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Risjord : The Clinton platform, 1812 -- Address from the South Carolina assembly to president James Madison, Charleston, September 1, 1812 -- Letter from Rufus King to Christopher Gore, September 19, 1812 -- Editorials from the Columbian centinel, Boston, October 28, 31, 1812 -- Electoral vote -- Elections of 1816 and 1820 / Lynn W. …”