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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... Party System until the collapse of the Whig Party , 1834-54 , the two main parties had different reactions in the House whenever slavery questions came up . Whereas the Whigs split sharply along sec- tional lines on these votes , some ...
... Whig Party by bringing in Independent Democrats like John P. Hale of New Hampshire , Liberty men , and Conscience Whigs or " ultras " from Massachusetts . Giddings began corresponding with John Palfrey of the latter group . The ...
... Whig for the nomination , he declared , " The free states will no longer submit . I declare to this convention my belief that the Whig Party of the United States is here and this day dissolved . " Then Henry Wilson , another Massachu ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |