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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... campaign . The campaign was largely devoid of serious discussion of issues , ideology , or much of substance . Instead were sub- stituted slogans , parades , campaign songs , and campaign props . Some of this had begun back in the 1820s ...
... campaign biography of Fremont . Greeley also published campaign speeches in German and Welsh - the latter for Pennsylvanian coal miners . Greeley compiled a handbook for Republican workers and speakers entitled History of the Struggle ...
... campaign of parades , singing , and a spectacle reminiscent of the Harrison “ log cabin and cider " campaign of 1840 or the Democratic " Old Hickory ” campaigns of 1828 and 1832. For three dollars , a young male Republican supporter ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |