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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... Scott and the Conscience Whigs acquiesced . Adams was himself leaning toward supporting Scott , as his future patron William Seward did , and Chase had already supported the Democratic gubernatorial candidate over Free Soiler Sam Lewis ...
... Scott in Mexico during 1847. Nominating a general of their own would help to counteract Scott if he became the Whig nominee , and Pierce was quite handsome and had a reputation of being sympathetic to the South . Pierce won the ...
... Scott had decided to go after the immigrant vote , but he did it in such a clumsy fashion that he managed to ... Scott received only 35 percent of the popular vote . Scott actually polled better in the upper South than in the North ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |