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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... abolitionists had established their own series of separate aboli- tionist denominations as groups of abolitionists took control of church congrega- tions in different denominations and split the denomination . These churches known ...
... abolitionist organization to be forwarded to Washington . When Congress adopted the gag rule in 1835 , the abolitionists decided to escalate their political activity by increasing the petition drive . John G. Whittier was transferred to ...
... abolitionists , mostly Garrisonians associated with Wendell Phillips - who had encouraged Fremont to run - and with the Stephen / Abby Foster wing of the group and the Smith circle in New York , wanted a Radical as president . They ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |