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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... former Democrats . The platform agreed to at the convention was a con- servative antiextentionist one , but it did ... former Democrat , rather than a former Whig or Know Nothing , as a candidate in order to ensure the support of former ...
... former Whig vote . In Maine , New York , Ohio , and Illinois a majority of former Scott voters voted for Fremont , but in Pennsylvania less than half of former Whig voters voted for Fremont . The same was true in southern Indiana and ...
... former president ( Tyler ) , six former cabinet members , eleven former U.S. senators , fifty former congressmen , twelve state supreme court justices , and five former ambassadors . Twelve of the delegates were seventy years or above ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |