And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War"This detailed account of slavery in America, from Jamestown through the Civil War, explains its economic importance in the North as well as the South, its impact on the political dynamics of the Civil War, and the moral dilemmas it posed"--Provided by publisher. |
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... houses and salons and invigorating soldiers in the Grand Armée of France. The bow wave of British naval preeminence cleared the way for England to capture most of the slave trade. In the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), following the War of ...
... houses and salons and invigorating soldiers in the Grand Armée of France. The bow wave of British naval preeminence cleared the way for England to capture most of the slave trade. In the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), following the War of ...
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... houses, churches, colleges, taverns, racetracks, and private clubs. The concept of class distinction and “place” in society became as firmly rooted in the colonial society as it was in England. Masters invoked the Bible and the ...
... houses, churches, colleges, taverns, racetracks, and private clubs. The concept of class distinction and “place” in society became as firmly rooted in the colonial society as it was in England. Masters invoked the Bible and the ...
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... house” on the plantation, to utilize household servants to perform domestic labor, to build a town house in Beaufort or Charleston to escape the summer malaria, to enjoy the comfort and pastimes of men of leisure, to buy the ...
... house” on the plantation, to utilize household servants to perform domestic labor, to build a town house in Beaufort or Charleston to escape the summer malaria, to enjoy the comfort and pastimes of men of leisure, to buy the ...
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... House on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Despite repeated armed clashes during the past year, the colonies had not yet declared war nor proclaimed their independence. To debate this stu- pendous issue, upon which the leaders, as well ...
... House on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Despite repeated armed clashes during the past year, the colonies had not yet declared war nor proclaimed their independence. To debate this stu- pendous issue, upon which the leaders, as well ...
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... house cannot bring him out again.”25 The British were convinced the colonists could never put aside their rivalries long enough to form a united front. The North and the South were like England and France, close geographically but ...
... house cannot bring him out again.”25 The British were convinced the colonists could never put aside their rivalries long enough to form a united front. The North and the South were like England and France, close geographically but ...
Contents
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One Party Dead The Other Split | 71 |
7 Abraham Lincoln in Illinois | 83 |
A Dark Horse | 93 |
Opportunity Squandered | 149 |
15 Slaughter at Fredericksburg Jubilee with Emancipation | 163 |
Lincolns Depression Grows | 175 |
The Writing on the Wall | 183 |
General Grant | 199 |
Something Went Out of the War | 211 |
20 Confederate Disaster in Tennessee And the 13th Amendment | 223 |
21 Lee Surrenders at Appomattox | 235 |
9 Lincoln Elected Seven States Defected | 103 |
10 An Act of War | 113 |
Disillusion and Frustration | 121 |
LargeScale Killing Shocks the Nation | 131 |
McClellan spooked by Lee | 139 |
22 Lincoln Assassinated His Severe Task Done | 245 |
The Man John Quincy Adams was Looking For | 257 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 277 |
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Page 236 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 115 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Page 236 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 237 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who • have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 93 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in...
Page 236 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated ^that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 93 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 107 - All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition as being right; but thinking it wrong as we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view and against our own? In view of our moral, social, and political...
Page 147 - In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Page 24 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...