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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... Wilentz , looking not backward in time , but across the Atlantic to Europe , compares the Free Soil insurgency to the failed revolutions of the " springtime of nations " in Europe that year . Wilentz dubs the Free Soil election " the ...
... Wilentz , op . cit . pp . 609–10 . 93. Chase to Sumner December 2 , 1847 quoted in ibid . , p . 610 . Chapter 3 : Fusion and Free Soil , 1848 1. Sean Wilentz , The Rise of American Democracy ( New York : WW Norton , 2005 ) , pp . 613-14 ...
... Wilentz , op . cit . p . 686 ; Kenneth M. Stampp , America in 1857 ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1990 ) , p . 145 . 6. Stampp , op . cit . p . 145 . 7. Wilentz , op . cit . pp . 686-87 . 8. David M. Potter , The Impending ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |