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Author Harrold, Stanley, author.

Title American abolitionism : its direct political impact from colonial times into reconstruction / Stanley Harrold.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  326.8 H249a 2019    ---  Available
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Description 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt
Nationality/regional group: nat Americans lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt
Series A nation divided: studies in the Civil War era
Nation divided.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.
Contents Direct Abolitionist Engagement in Politics, 1688-1807 -- Continuity and Transition, 1807-1830 -- Escalation, 1831-1840 -- The Rise and Fall of the Abolition Lobby, 1836-1845 -- Discord, Relationships, and Free Soil, 1840-1848 -- Physical Action, Fugitive Slave Laws, and the Free Democratic Party, 1845-1852 -- Abolitionists and Republicans, 1852-1860 -- Political Success and Failure: An Ambiguous Denouement, 1860-1870.
Summary This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to surveying indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists' political tactics-petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians-and on their disruptions of slavery itself. Harrold begins with the abolition movement's relationship to politics and government in the northern American colonies and goes on to evaluate its influence in a number of crucial contexts-the U.S. Congress during the 1790s, the Missouri Compromise, the struggle over slavery in Illinois during the 1820s, and abolitionist petitioning of Congress during that same decade. He shows how the rise of "immediate" abolitionism, with its emphasis on moral suasion, did not diminish direct abolitionists' impact on Congress during the 1830s and 1840s. The book also addresses abolitionists' direct actions against slavery itself, aiding escaped or kidnapped slaves, which led southern politicians to demand the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a major flashpoint of antebellum politics. Finally, Harrold investigates the relationship between abolitionists and the Republican Party through the Civil War and into Reconstruction. - from book jacket
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
Abolitionists -- United States -- History.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Slavery -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01120480
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1783-1865
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780813942292 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813942292
9780813942308 (ebook)

 
    
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