The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Author : Lysander Spooner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Lysander Spooner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Wendell Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN :
Author : J. Q. Adams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385260779
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author : James Oakes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1324005866
Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
Author : Jacobus tenBroek
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520344847
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
Author : Lysander Spooner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 1425034071
In the midst of this endless variety of opinion, what man, or what body of men, has the right to say, in regard to any particular action, or course of action, "we have tried this experiment, and determined every question involved in it? We have determined it, not only for ourselves, but for all others? And, as to all those who are weaker than we, we will coerce them to act in obedience to our conclusions? We will suffer no further experiment or inquiry by any one, and, consequently, no further acquisition of knowledge by anybody?"
Author : United States
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 1893
Category :
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Author : Michael F. Conlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1108495273
Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.
Author : Roger Brooke Taney
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017251265
The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--