Author: Horace MannPublisher:
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Horace Mann's Letters on the Extension of Slavery Into California and New Mexico
Author: Horace MannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Slavery
Author: Horace MannSlavery: Letters and Speeches
Author: Horace MANN (Secretary to the Board of Education of the State of Massachusetts.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Liberty Power
Author: Corey M. BrooksPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022630731X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage—but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most transformative third-party movement in American history and effectively reshaped political structures in the decades leading up to the Civil War. As Corey M. Brooks explains, abolitionist trailblazers who organized first the Liberty Party and later the more moderate Free Soil Party confronted formidable opposition from a two-party system expressly constructed to suppress disputes over slavery. Identifying the Whigs and Democrats as the mainstays of the southern Slave Power’s national supremacy, savvy abolitionists insisted that only a party independent of slaveholder influence could wrest the federal government from its grip. A series of shrewd electoral, lobbying, and legislative tactics enabled these antislavery third parties to wield influence far beyond their numbers. In the process, these parties transformed the national political debate and laid the groundwork for the success of the Republican Party and the end of American slavery.
H. M.'s Letters on the extension of slavery into California and New Mexico, and on the duty of Congress to provide the trial by jury for alleged fugitive slaves ... Republished with notes
Author: Horace MANN (Secretary to the Board of Education of the State of Massachusetts.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The North American Review
Author: The North American Review
Author: Jared SparksPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
A Strife of Tongues
Author: Stephen E. MaizlishPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "words become things." Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But while the legislative maneuvering, factional alignments, and specific measures of the Compromise of 1850 have been exhaustively studied, much of the language of the debate, where underlying beliefs and assumptions were revealed, has been neglected. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to defuse confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War—which would be free, which would allow slavery, and how the Fugitive Slave Law would be enacted. A Strife of Tongues tells the cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal political event through the lens of language, revealing the complex context of northern and southern ideological opposition within which the Civil War occurred a decade later. Deftly drawing on extensive records, from public discourse to private letters, Stephen Maizlish animates the most famous political characters of the age in their own words. This novel account reveals a telling irony—that the Compromise debates of 1850 only made obvious the hardening of sectional division of ideology, which led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the antebellum period and laid the foundations of the U.S. Civil War.
North Over South
Author: Susan-Mary GrantPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This text argues that the Civil War truly formed the American nation and that the antebellum period was the crucial phase of American national construction. Grant focuses on a Northern nationalism based on an opposition to things Southern and links national construction with European nationalism.
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