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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... constitution . In the fall election , the constitution was narrowly defeated and Wilson was badly beaten in the gubernatorial race . Whigs voted heavily against the constitution and Irish Catholics voted Whig because of a clause in the ...
... constitution that it wrote became known to history as the Lecompton constitution . Fifteen counties in Kansas had no delegates to the convention . The constitution that the 60 delegates wrote , called for existing slaves to be legal in ...
... constitution with an article by Attorney General Jeremiah Black in the Washington Union newspaper that functioned as the administration mouthpiece . Walker took personal leave in November to take care of some business in Pennsylvania ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |