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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... Tappan brothers , Lewis and Arthur , the latter serving as president of the AASS ; and Gerrit Smith . The Tappan brothers lost their business to bankruptcy and ended up with a million - dollar debt.30 Because the movement was forced to ...
... Tappan wanted the paper to be privately owned rather than owned and financed by the party , but he was willing to bankroll its establishment . Leavitt had alienated Tappan in the early 1840s with his support for the Liberty Party in the ...
... Tappan that the Liberty Party had abandoned him . Fifteen years later , Leavitt conceded to Chase that Van Buren may have been " the best we could get at the time . " 21 If the Liberty Party was translated , it was translated into a ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |