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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... Fremont . 13 Fremont's emancipation order made him a hero to both abolitionists and German - Americans , who tended to be antislavery . During the dispute in September and October about Fremont's emancipation order , abolitionist preach ...
... Fremont - or anyone else . But German - Americans in Missouri and Illinois , two of the midwestern states with the largest German populations , endorsed Fremont for president in March 1864. Fremont was urged to run by Governors John ...
... Fremont supporter and editor of the Deutsche Amerikanische Monatshefte newspaper in Illinois , estimated in February that there were 400,000 German votes but he did not know if the Germans would vote for Fremont en masse . Lincoln's ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |