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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... President Abraham Lincoln in Richmond, Virginia, soon after the surrender of the city on April 4, 1865. Image: © CORBIS Date Created: ca. 1865 Printed in the United States This book is gratefully dedicated to those persons who have.
... President Abraham Lincoln in Richmond, Virginia, soon after the surrender of the city on April 4, 1865. Image: © CORBIS Date Created: ca. 1865 Printed in the United States This book is gratefully dedicated to those persons who have.
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... President,John Hancock of Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard and heir to Boston's largest shipping firm. He had tabled discussion until Monday,July 1. Hancock was one of two men the British soldiers were looking for when they marched ...
... President,John Hancock of Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard and heir to Boston's largest shipping firm. He had tabled discussion until Monday,July 1. Hancock was one of two men the British soldiers were looking for when they marched ...
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... presidents, who held office during 49 of the nation's first 61 years, were slaveholders. And not only the presidents: the Office of Speaker of the House was held by a slaveholder for 28 of the nation's first 35 years. The president pro ...
... presidents, who held office during 49 of the nation's first 61 years, were slaveholders. And not only the presidents: the Office of Speaker of the House was held by a slaveholder for 28 of the nation's first 35 years. The president pro ...
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... president, the Spanish closed the port of New Orleans to American shipping, imposing great hardship on the nation's western settlers. Then the Spanish secretly ceded the whole region to the French, reports of which soon reached ...
... president, the Spanish closed the port of New Orleans to American shipping, imposing great hardship on the nation's western settlers. Then the Spanish secretly ceded the whole region to the French, reports of which soon reached ...
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... president was a strict constitutionalist. At first, he thought to legalize the purchase through a constitutional amendment, but was advised that any delay could allow time for Napoleon to change his mind. Pragmatism led Jefferson to ...
... president was a strict constitutionalist. At first, he thought to legalize the purchase through a constitutional amendment, but was advised that any delay could allow time for Napoleon to change his mind. Pragmatism led Jefferson to ...
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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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Limited preview - 2005 |
And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Limited preview - 2005 |
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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...