And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil WarThis detailed account of slavery in America, from Jamestown through the Civil War, explains its economic importance in the North as well as the South, its impact on the political dynamics of the Civil War, and the moral dilemmas it posed--Provided by publisher. |
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... moved to poetry: Six months before, Thomas Paine had published his blockbuster, Common Sense, trumpeting to the world, “The birthday of a new world is at hand. We have it in our power to begin the world all over again.” Thomas Jefferson ...
... moved to poetry: Six months before, Thomas Paine had published his blockbuster, Common Sense, trumpeting to the world, “The birthday of a new world is at hand. We have it in our power to begin the world all over again.” Thomas Jefferson ...
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... moved forward, cheering. That night, Abigail wrote John: “The Bells rang, privateers fired the forts and batteries, the canon were dis- charged, the platoons followed and every face appeared joyful...After dinner the Kings arms were ...
... moved forward, cheering. That night, Abigail wrote John: “The Bells rang, privateers fired the forts and batteries, the canon were dis- charged, the platoons followed and every face appeared joyful...After dinner the Kings arms were ...
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... moved in parallel with real wages in Europe and in the Northern colonies. During the late eigh- teenth century, slave prices had declined sharply, as had real wages for free laborers in Europe. This trend would reverse itself in the ...
... moved in parallel with real wages in Europe and in the Northern colonies. During the late eigh- teenth century, slave prices had declined sharply, as had real wages for free laborers in Europe. This trend would reverse itself in the ...
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... moved that the “three-fifths” rule should be adopted, as proposed four years before by the Con- federation Congress of 1783. This rule stipulated that the vote should be in pro- portion to the “whole number of white and other free ...
... moved that the “three-fifths” rule should be adopted, as proposed four years before by the Con- federation Congress of 1783. This rule stipulated that the vote should be in pro- portion to the “whole number of white and other free ...
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... moved west, so did cotton. The share of the cotton crop produced by the Carolinas would decline from 60% in 1801 to 10% in 1859.47 But migration of the “King” Cotton bonanza improved the economy in all Southern states because the sharp ...
... moved west, so did cotton. The share of the cotton crop produced by the Carolinas would decline from 60% in 1801 to 10% in 1859.47 But migration of the “King” Cotton bonanza improved the economy in all Southern states because the sharp ...
Contents
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One Party Dead The Other Split | 71 |
7 Abraham Lincoln in Illinois | 83 |
A Dark Horse | 93 |
Opportunity Squandered | 149 |
15 Slaughter at Fredericksburg Jubilee with Emancipation | 163 |
Lincolns Depression Grows | 175 |
The Writing on the Wall | 183 |
General Grant | 199 |
Something Went Out of the War | 211 |
20 Confederate Disaster in Tennessee And the 13th Amendment | 223 |
21 Lee Surrenders at Appomattox | 235 |
9 Lincoln Elected Seven States Defected | 103 |
10 An Act of War | 113 |
Disillusion and Frustration | 121 |
LargeScale Killing Shocks the Nation | 131 |
McClellan spooked by Lee | 139 |
22 Lincoln Assassinated His Severe Task Done | 245 |
The Man John Quincy Adams was Looking For | 257 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 277 |
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Page 237 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Page 115 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Page 236 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 236 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 237 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who • have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 93 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in...
Page 107 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Page 236 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Page 93 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.