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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... political contender . " 42 As political observers surveyed the political scene in early 1860 , there were three primary candidates for the Republican nomination . Seward was the leading candidate . He was widely considered to be the ...
... political career . Chase was dedicated to two causes that he always managed to find compatible : antislavery and his own political advancement . Chase's only real hobby or leisure pursuit was chess . Consumed by grief over the premature ...
... political affiliation but also because of their past and present . The route to military promotion came in the form of political surrender and abasement in front of the Committee . The Radicals experienced the same frustration that ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |