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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... Southern Know Nothings were merely conservative Whigs in dis- guise . He gives three reasons for this dissent : First , not all Whigs joined the Know Nothings in the South . Second , the Southern Know Nothings had the same concerns as ...
... Southern Democrats and distrusted by the ultra wing of Southern Whigs . He had served as secretary of war under both Harrison and Tyler . In the North he was admired by some supporters of Douglas . Bell had never been a very popular ...
... Southern states appointed " commis- sioners " to confer with one another and decide upon a common approach . The commissioners called for a Southern secession convention at Montgomery , Alabama , a small town with a combined population ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |