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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... victory margin for the winning party - in New York it was more than three times as great — 5,106 . But in New York the Democrats had 24,852 new voters as against only 6,469 for the Whigs as compared to 1840 . In Michigan the margin of ...
... victory in four years time , the Republicans had two interrelated tasks : first , they had to finish integrating the Know Nothings into their party . They had managed to integrate the North Americans in 1856. They needed to integrate ...
... victory at Second Manassas , Lee's Army of Northern Virginia invaded Maryland and the North . It was to be the first of three annual summer invasions of the North by the Confederates . There were three primary strategic motives for the ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |