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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... legislature in Topeka as long as it did not attempt to govern and to recognize the Lecompton legislature as the legal legislature . Walker had both Buchanan - in Washington before he left - and Douglas - in Chicago en route to Kansas ...
... legislature that passed 77-6 . And in 1849 , Lincoln's bill for compensated abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia had the support of Joshua Giddings . But in 1847 Lincoln had served as cocounsel to a slaveholder seeking to ...
... legislature , about 121,000 for Douglas Democrats and about 5,000 for the Buchanan Democrats ( National Democrats ) . But because of the apportionment of legislative districts , the Demo- crats elected 46 Democrats to only 41 ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |