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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... president without a party , came James K. Polk , a protégé of Jackson from Tennessee . Zachary Taylor , a wealthy Louisiana planter and slaveholder of over a hundred slaves was the last elected Whig president . After Taylor's death ...
... president of the state senate , began a personal lobbying campaign within the legislature to scrape together the ... president . Wilson was chosen as president of the Free Democrats convention in Pittsburgh in August 1852. Just about ...
... president's speech was reconstruction . He mentioned in passing that he wished to see Union veterans and intelligent ( literate ? ) blacks given the vote . A renowned young Shakespearean actor in the audience overheard this and reacted ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |