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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... Missouri Compromise of 1820. So , when Douglas reintroduced his bill in February 1854 it called for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise . Otherwise the South would not support the bill and it would be tabled in committee never to ...
... Missouri Republican Party . There was judicial precedent for simply ruling that Missouri law had precedence over the laws of other states regarding personal status of blacks . But Chief Justice Roger Taney was determined to make the ...
... Missouri . There were a total of 1,573,000 popular votes for the three opposition candidates in the free states and 1,249,000 in the slave states for a total of 2.8 million votes . But even if a single opposition candidate had received ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |