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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... Henry Raymond , and Preston King were opposed to the formation of a new antislavery party . The following month , the results of the 1854 state election proved to be “ a regular smash - up " in the words of the New York Evening Journal ...
... 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 since 1848 along with Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony . A major clash between ...
... Henry Seward : Lincoln's Right Hand ( New York : Harper Collins , 1991 ) , pp . 106-07 ; Glyndon van Deusen , William Henry Seward ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1967 ) , pp . 191–93 . 40. Thomas Brown , Politics and ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |