Presents varying opinions about the history of slavery in the United States, as well as antislavery movements throughout the years.

Slavery is a positive good / John C. Calhoun -- Slavery is evil / Theodore Dwight Weld -- Slavery was oppressive and dehumanizing / Robert Liston -- The harshness of slave life has been exaggerated / William K. Scarborough -- The U.S. government should pay reparations to blacks for the harms caused by slavery / Ronald Walters -- The U.S. government should not pay reparations to blacks for the harms caused by slavery / Karl Zinsmeister -- Resistance to slavery is justified / Frederick Douglass, et al. -- Resistance to slavery is not justified / Jupiter Hammon -- The Underground Railroad aided many runaway slaves / Louis Filler -- The Underground Railroad was largely a myth / Larry Gara -- Black resistance to American slavery was widespread / William F. Cheek -- Open rebellion against American slavery was relatively limited / John B. Boles -- Emancipation should be gradual / George Tucker -- Emancipation should be immediate / William Lloyd Garrison -- Emancipation is impractical / Thomas R. Dew -- Emancipation is practical / Lydia Maria Child -- William Lloyd Garrison made a minor conrtribution to the abolitionist movement / Dwight Lowell Dumond -- William Lloyd Garrison made an important contribution to the abolitionist movement / Russel B. Nye -- Popular sovereignty over slavery divides the nation / Abraham Lincoln -- Popular sovereignty should decide slavery / Stephen A. Douglas -- Freeing the slaves should be the primary war aim / Horace Greeley -- Preserving the Union should be the primary war aim / Abraham Lincoln -- Slavery would have been abolished without the Civil War / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel -- Slavery would have continued indefinitely without the Civil War / Robert William Fogel.