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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... Garrisonians and of these the foremost figure was Wendell Phillips . Other Garrisonian lecturers were Abby Kelley and Frederick Douglass , an escaped slave who was a Garrisonian during the 1840s until he struck out on his own and became ...
... Garrisonians associated with Wendell Phillips - who had encouraged Fremont to run - and with the Stephen / Abby Foster wing of the group and the Smith circle in New York , wanted a Radical as president . They wanted someone even farther ...
... Garrisonians and the radical Liberty men reunited after 24 years . Liberty man Henry Stanton had moved to supporting the Radicals in their call for emancipation in 1861 ; his wife Elizabeth had been an active women's rights pioneer ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |