Letter, 1853 Dec. 16, New Haven [Conn.], to Wm. H. Seward
Author : Roger Sherman Baldwin
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Slave trade
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Author : Roger Sherman Baldwin
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Slave trade
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Law
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Author : James L. Huston
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0807861685
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War. In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery posed to the northern free labor market, particularly if allowed to spread to western territories. This impasse sparked a process of political realignment that culminated in the creation of the Republican Party, ultimately leading to the secession crisis. Deeply researched and carefully written, this study rebuts recent trends in antebellum historiography and persuasively argues for a fundamentally economic interpretation of the slavery issue and the coming of the Civil War.
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : Joseph W. Pearson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813179742
Passionate political disagreement is as old as the American Republic, and the antebellum era—the thirty years before the Civil War—was as rife with partisan discord as any in our history. From 1834 to 1856, the Whigs battled their opponents, the Jacksonian Democrats, for offices, prestige, and power. The partisan expression of America's rising middle class, the Whigs boasted such famous members as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and William Henry Seward, and the party supported tariffs, banks, internal improvements, moral reform, and public education. In The Whigs' America, Joseph W. Pearson explores a variety of topics, including the Whigs' understanding of the role of the individual in American politics, their perceptions of political power and the rule of law, and their impressions of the past and what should be learned from history. Long dismissed as a party bereft of ideas, Pearson provides a counterbalance to this trend through an attentive examination of writings from party leaders, contemporaneous newspapers, and other sources. Throughout, he shows that the party attracted optimistic Americans seeking achievement, community, and meaning through collaborative effort and self-control in a world growing more and more impersonal. Pearson effectively demonstrates that, while the Whigs never achieved the electoral success of their opponents, they were rich with ideas. His detailed study adds complexity and nuance to the history of the antebellum era by illuminating significant aspects of a deeply felt, shared culture that informed and shaped a changing nation.
Author : Houghton Mifflin Company
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American literature
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Author : Alfred Andrews
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Berlin (Conn. : Town)
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Author : William Frederick Doolittle
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2018-11-09
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ISBN : 9780344989230
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Author : RALPH DUNNING. SMITH
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9781033110898
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
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Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Chinese language
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