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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... Brown , a failed businessman and farmer who lived most of his life in New York and Ohio . John Brown , Sr. , was an abolitionist since 1834 who was acquainted with Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith . He had been a settler on Gerrit ...
... Brown out of the territory - gave Brown a rather guarded letter of introduction and $ 25 . Theodore Parker hosted a reception for Brown at his home in Boston that was attended by both Wendell Phillips and his ally Garrison . On January ...
... Brown's plan for a guerrilla campaign in the mountains of Virginia outside of Smith's home in Petersboro . It was the first time that any of the Secret Six had actually discussed what eventually became ... Brown a KANSAS AND JOHN BROWN 119.
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |