The Future of the Colored Race in America / Being an article in the Presbyterian quarterly review of July, 1862

The author contends that slavery constitutes the foundational social and political structure behind Southern power, creating an oligarchy that made secession the logical defense of its interests and rendered voluntary abolition unlikely; the essay examines the social psychology that sustains the system, the exile faced by conscientious emancipators, and the swift doctrinal shift that justified bondage and state-rights rhetoric, then considers prospects for the colored population, arguing that freedom, economic change, and possible emigration or colonization along commercial routes will shape their future advancement.