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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... Sumner's election on ballot after ballot through the winter and spring of 1851. Wilson , who was now president of the state senate , began a personal lobbying campaign within the legislature to scrape together the neces- sary votes to ...
... Sumner informed abolitionist Theodore Parker in February 1856. Sumner had received many letters from free soil settlers in Kansas pleading for aid to defend themselves against the border ruffians . Sumner pitched his two - day speech ...
... [ Sumner ] as the spokesman of the antislavery conscience . " Chase also had some influence , but Lincoln rightly suspected him of having a hidden political motive in everything he advocated . Because Sumner had no presidential ambitions ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |