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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... Bates of Missouri . Bates had been a one- term Whig congressman in the 1840s and was prominent mainly in St. Louis . He had become a Fillmore supporter and presided over the final Whig nominating convention that nominated Fillmore in ...
Thomas G. Mitchell. move to nominate Bates . As a former Bates supporter , he was very effective in convincing the delegates of Lincoln's relative strengths vis - à - vis Bates . " The first two days of the convention were devoted to ...
... Bates was considered a lightweight and a creature of the Blairs . Bates and Blair had little professional respect for each other , but they were ideologically compatible and Bates was too old to be a political threat to Frank Blair.37 ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |