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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... emancipation in 1862 and was still attempting to carry out colonization a year later . Only after it was demonstrated that colonization was a failure did Lincoln become a complete convert to emancipation and equal rights . But the ...
... Emancipation Proclamation in the cabinet largely on the under- standing that the emancipated slaves would be colonized abroad . On October 1 , 1862 , a week after the issue of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation , Lincoln held a ...
... emancipation came about because of American military might . Orville Browning , Lincoln's old friend from Illinois and a senator in 1862 , described the Proclamation as " unfortunate ” and refused to discuss it with Lincoln.30 Garrison ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |