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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... Illinois . Abraham Lincoln attended a meeting of Illinois editors who were interested in organizing a new antislavery party at Decatur . He convinced them to call for a fusion convention at Bloomington in central Illinois on May 24. He ...
... Illinois a majority of former Scott voters voted for Fremont , but in Pennsylvania less than half of former Whig voters voted for Fremont . The same was true in southern Indiana and southern Illinois . The percentage of 1852 Democratic ...
... Illinois cast about 125,000 votes for Republican candidates to the state legislature , about 121,000 for Douglas Democrats and about 5,000 for the Buchanan Democrats ( National Democrats ) . But because of the apportionment of ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |