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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... Lincoln who had been supporting Bates . Davis functioned as the head of the group . Because of Lincoln's and his own work for the railroads , Judd was able to get free train tickets to Chicago and flood the city with Lincoln supporters ...
... Lincoln to resign from the cabinet unless Chase was excluded . Lincoln simply called Seward's bluff by refusing to back down , and in a private note asked him to reconsider . Seward was forced to back down and withdraw his threat ...
... Lincoln had to master the subject . Lincoln would politely listen to Chase's input on either strategy or promotions and use them as a way of discerning what the Radicals wanted . But Lincoln would trust more his own interrogations of ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |