Transcriber's Note: Corrections are underlined with a thin dottedline—hovering over them will reveal an explanatory transcriber's note.Hyphenation of the word 'antebellum' has been regularized(ante-bellum → antebellum), and several spelling and punctuation irregularies between theindex and the main text have been corrected without note.Several alphabetization errors in the index were also corrected. All otherspelling and punctuation is as it appeared in the original.

Two identical footnotes on pages 42-43 have been merged into one (Footnote 16).

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