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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... governor . Kansas was actually governed legally by a series of territorial governors appointed by President Pierce and then President Buchanan . None of them lasted very long as they were either unable to deal with the turmoil and ...
... GOVERNOR WALKER AND LECOMPTON From October 1856 until 1859 , Kansas was primarily a political problem fought out in the halls of Congress in Washington , rather than a military problem . Geary resigned as governor on the last day of the ...
... governor of South Carolina , William Gist , writing in October to the governors of the other cotton states to ascertain their interest in secession in response to Lincoln's election . Most replied that they wanted to secede in unison or ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |