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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... Stanton , a prominent trial lawyer , replaced him . Stanton was originally from a small town in Ohio but later moved to Pittsburgh and then Washington . He had snubbed Lincoln in the mid - 1850s when Lincoln was associate counsel on a ...
... Stanton was both very hard working and a thorough civilian who delighted in bullying professional soldiers . This had the effect of counterbalancing Lincoln's early indulgence of generals like McClellan . Stanton was a protégé of Chase ...
... Stanton were both despised by the conservatives and the feeling was reciprocated . By 1864 , Stanton and Blair were no longer on speaking terms . Bates was considered a lightweight and a creature of the Blairs . Bates and Blair had ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |