The document appears to be a collection of chapter headings from a history textbook on America covering topics such as southern agriculture, King Cotton, free blacks, the confessions of Nat Turner, a plantation in South Carolina in 1862, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, abolition coming under attack, drama in American politics, Uncle Tom's Cabin being called "The Greatest Book of the Age", Stephen Douglas in 1852, the "sack of Lawrence", the Election of 1856, a debate announcement, abolitionist John Brown, a political cartoon titled "Prospect of a Smash Up" from 1860, and Abraham Lincoln.