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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... slavery was in contradiction to the republican ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and they preferred to be hypocrites rather than active defenders of the virtues of slavery . But with the invention of the cotton gin by ...
... slavery and outlawing slavery in the District of Columbia . Northern Whigs wanted to impose the Proviso as a means of survival against further inroads by the Free Soilers . Southern Democrats used their control over patronage in an ...
... slavery was national and that slaves could be brought anywhere in the country as property . In order to prevent his bill from being tabled , as it had been in 1853 , Senator Douglas needed to satisfy the senior senator from Missouri ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |