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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... Davis functioned as the head of the group . Because of Lincoln's and his own work for the railroads , Judd was able to get free train tickets to Chicago and flood the city with Lincoln supporters from the outlying areas . He also ...
... Davis probably figured that he needed an attack on Ft . Sumter to unite the South within the Confederacy . Such a union would give the Confederacy access to the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry that John Brown attempted to capture . Davis ...
... Davis , A Government of Our Own ( New York : The Free Press , 1994 ) , pp . 7 , 8 , 10–11 , 25 . 17. Davis , op . cit . pp . 13 , 28 . 18. Potter , op . cit . pp . 491 , 496–99 ; Davis , op . cit . pp . 15–16 . 19. Potter , op . cit . p ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |