| Acknowledgment | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| Chapter One. Slavery vs. Industrialization: in Terms of Economics | 第16-23页 |
| I.1.Controversies over the competitiveness of slavery in the early stage of industrialization | 第16-19页 |
| I.2.The revival of American slavery and the cross-Atlantic industrialization | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter Two. Slavery as a Politico-Ideological Issue | 第23-33页 |
| II.1.The crux of slavery in the western philosophical/ political traditions | 第23-25页 |
| II.2.Slavery as the issue before the Civil War | 第25-33页 |
| Chapter Three. The Civil War and the Technical Termination of Slavery | 第33-40页 |
| III.1.The causes of the Civil War | 第33-37页 |
| III.2.The war and the Emancipation Proclamation | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Four. Slavery Dies Hard | 第40-49页 |
| IV. 1. Economic solution alternatives in the post-slavery world | 第41-46页 |
| IV. 2. African-Americans after emancipation | 第46-49页 |
| Conclusions | 第49-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
