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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... abolition and its refusal to have anything to do with slaveholders ( slave owners ) . A meeting in Boston in December 1831 led to the formation of the New England Anti - Slavery Society , which eventually became the Massachusetts Anti ...
... abolition in the United States , Great Britain , and Ireland and wrote widely in the movement's press and journals . Stanton was an advocate of the establishment of an abolitionist party but did not really become involved with the ...
... abolition of slavery that gained hundreds of thousands of signatures and presented it to Congress in January 1864 after having spent most of the previous year gathering signatures . It was a return to the petition politics of the 1830s ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |