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9: How Did American Slavery End?

Our sometimes mythical memory of the Underground Railroad, and why the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 propelled the country toward war.

8: Runaway Railroad

What modern medicine gained from slavery, and how slaveholders sought to legitimize their ideology through science.

7: To Do No Harm?

The rise of the 19th-century cotton economy brings about a powerful and frightening turn for the worse.

6: When Cotton Became King

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