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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... Massachusetts , eastern New Hampshire , Vermont , and southeastern Maine . The Massachusetts Liberty Party matured between 1841 and 1847 with its leaders devising a strategy based on a combination of the old agitation techniques of the ...
... Massachusetts stood up and had his say . " We have a man who will continue the rule of slavery for another four years . " Massachusetts " rejected the nominee of the Convention , and ... Massachusetts would spurn the bribe that was to ...
... Massachusetts , and New York . In New York the Free Soil vote was from Barnburners ; in Ohio it was overwhelmingly from Whigs ; elsewhere it was more mixed . In Massachusetts the non - Liberty Free Soil vote came almost evenly from the ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |