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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... Clay for the Whigs . President Tyler never succeeded in creating his own party , but he did manage to make the annexation of Texas a national issue . The Whigs , still expecting Van Buren to be his opponent , nominated Clay as expected ...
... Clay's proposal , but did contribute to the compromise because of its solemn warning to the Senate . Webster spoke three days later and Calhoun made his final appearance in the Senate to hear Webster speak . Webster's speech was very ...
... Clay . Like Clay , Lincoln was opposed to slavery in theory but gave little evidence of being opposed to it in practice during his early years . Like Clay , he saw colonization as the solution to America's racial problems . But although ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |