Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War AmericaThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. |
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Thomas G. Mitchell. Q. Adams and grandson of John Adams , was a member of the lower house of the Massachusetts state legislature . Like his father , Charles Adams objected to the annexation of Texas on antislavery grounds . He formed a ...
... Adams and saw himself as Adams's natural successor within the party . Unlike John Q. Adams , Seward was a party man . Unlike Charles F. Adams and Chase , he did not believe in third parties but was a staunch believer in the two - party ...
... Adams . Adams opposed the plan but was convinced that the South would reject it — which it did . This demonstrated the intransigence of the Deep South . Adams then voted against his own plan , it having done its trick . But Adams's ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |