Author: Liberal Republican Party. National ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati, May 1st, 2d and 3d, 1872
Author: Liberal Republican Party. National ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati, May Lst, 2d and 3d, 1872
Author: Liberal Republican Party. National ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature, 1872
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Journals, 1829-1872
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386180
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This is the first of a proposed six-volume edition of the selected papers of Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873), a notable figure in the anti-slavery movement and American politics of the 19th century. This volume includes his Civil War-era diaries and his account of a tour of the South in 1865.
Political Parties in the United States 1800-1914
Author: Alta Blanche ClaflinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States
Author: Michael E. WoodsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107068983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book explores how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict over slavery in the United States.
Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Author: Andrew Wender CohenPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324198X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world. In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of Smugglers,” and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a nation whose founders themselves had once dabbled in contraband. Since the Revolution itself, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs on most imports. Protecting the nation was the custom house, which waged a “war on smuggling,” inspecting every traveler for illicitly imported silk, opium, tobacco, sugar, diamonds, and art. The Civil War’s blockade of the Confederacy heightened the obsession with contraband, but smuggling entered its prime during the Gilded Age, when characters like assassin Louis Bieral, economist “The Parsee Merchant,” Congressman Ben Butler, and actress Rose Eytinge tempted consumers with illicit foreign luxuries. Only as the United States became a global power with World War I did smuggling lose its scurvy romance. Meticulously researched, Contraband explores the history of smuggling to illuminate the broader history of the United States, its power, its politics, and its culture.
Frank Blair
Author: William Earl ParrishPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A biography of a member of one of the most prominent and powerful political families in America during the 19th century, known for his fearlessness in both the political arena and the battlefield. Of interest to specialists in 19th-century America, students of Missouri history, and Civil War buffs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Salmon P. Chase
Author: Walter StahrPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501199250
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
An NPR Best Book of 2022 From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer, an “eloquently written, impeccably researched, and intensely moving” (The Wall Street Journal) reassessment of Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln’s for the Republican nomination in 1860—but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading antislavery parties. He represented fugitive slaves so often in his law practice that he was known as the attorney general for runaway negroes. Tapped by Lincoln to become Secretary of the Treasury, Chase would soon prove vital to the Civil War effort, raising the billions of dollars that allowed the Union to win the war while also pressing the president to recognize black rights. When Lincoln had the chance to appoint a chief justice in 1864, he chose his faithful rival because he was sure Chase would make the right decisions on the difficult racial, political, and economic issues the Supreme Court would confront during Reconstruction. Drawing on previously overlooked sources, Walter Stahr offers a “revelatory” (The Christian Science Monitor) new look at the pivotal events of the Civil War and its aftermath, and a “superb” (James McPherson), “magisterial” (Amanda Foreman) account of a complex forgotten man at the center of the fight for racial justice in 19th century America.
Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt
Author: Bertis D. EnglishPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Reconstruction politics and race relations between freed blacks and the white establishment in Perry County, Alabama In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis D. English analyzes why Perry County, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion of Alabama, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighboring counties. Choosing an atypical locality as central to his study, English raises questions about factors affecting ethnic disturbances in the Black Belt and elsewhere in Alabama. He also uses Perry County, which he deems an anomalous county, to caution against the tendency of some scholars to make sweeping generalizations about entire regions and subregions. English contends Perry County was a relatively tranquil place with a set of extremely influential African American businessmen, clergy, politicians, and other leaders during Reconstruction. Together with egalitarian or opportunistic white citizens, they headed a successful campaign for black agency and biracial cooperation that few counties in Alabama matched. English also illustrates how a significant number of educational institutions, a high density of African American residents, and an unusually organized and informed African American population were essential factors in forming Perry County’s character. He likewise traces the development of religion in Perry, the nineteenth-century Baptist capital of Alabama, and the emergence of civil rights in Perry, an underemphasized center of activism during the twentieth century. This well-researched and comprehensive volume illuminates Perry County’s history from the various perspectives of its black, interracial, and white inhabitants, amplifying their own voices in a novel way. The narrative includes rich personal details about ordinary and affluent people, both free and unfree, creating a distinctive resource that will be useful to scholars as well as a reference that will serve the needs of students and general readers.
Author: Gerald J. Goodwin