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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... Free Soilers . This was one of six slave states where the new party appeared on the ballot . Many Free Soilers including their leaders hoped to capture New York , Massachusetts , Ohio , and Vermont based on their strong organizations in ...
... parties in Massachusetts , New York , and Ohio , the Free Soil parties were almost forced to form coalitions or remain less effective than the state Liberty parties before them . The Wisconsin Free Soilers began in January 1849 by ...
... Free Soil members , elected with the help of Whigs , voted for Giddings , but were betrayed by their Whig colleagues ... party and by the Whigs in the legislature . In order to keep the party from dividing and to prevent a formal merger ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |