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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... Tappan brothers , Lewis and Arthur , the latter serving as president of the AASS ; and Gerrit Smith . The Tappan brothers lost their business to bankruptcy and ended up with a million - dollar debt.30 Because the movement was forced to ...
... Lewis Tappan , especially after 1843. This was because his brother Arthur suffered a major business reversal that sent him into bankruptcy that year . Lewis Tappan privately voted for Liberty Party candidates but refused to link himself ...
Thomas G. Mitchell. In 1846 Lewis Tappan decided that the party , if it was to be competitive with the two main parties , needed its own national paper in Washington . The party could not afford to establish a daily but could found a ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |