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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... Union , had both declared secession to be illegal and declared that he had no power to prevent it . Chief Justice Roger Taney had the same opinion . " There is no rightful power to bring back by force the states into the Union ...
... Union in order to avoid the consequences of that election opposed him . The South believed that if it was to remain a part of the Union it had to dominate it . If it could not dominate , it had to leave . This was both a constitutional ...
... Union soil . He did not seem to accept that Lincoln also considered Virginia to be Union territory . Lincoln held his cards close to his chest as he feinted one way and then another to throw his opponents off guard as to how he would ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |