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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... Confederate leadership and warned Confederate Secretary of State Judah Benjamin that the South could expect no help from Europe . He also warned that the North was preparing a large army to invade the South . Napoleon III , Mercier's ...
... Confederate peace commissioners . The Confederates declined to negotiate . Lincoln had temporarily managed to shut Greeley up . 40 July and August were the worst months for Lincoln and his administration . In those two months three ...
... Confederate agents . Fourth , that the convention was merely part of the plot for a general rebellion by the secret societies , 57 Vallandigham had been in contact with Confederate agents in Canada in June and a rising had been planned ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |