No taint of compromise: crusaders in antislavery politics
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1. Verfasser: Blue, Frederick J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2005
Schriftenreihe:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index
No taint of compromise : varieties of antislavery leadership -- A self-sharpening plough : Alvan Stewart's challenge to slavery -- To mitigate the suffering of our countrymen : John Greenleaf Whittier, abolitionist poet -- Black men have no rights which white men are bound to respect : Charles Langston and the drive for equality -- The barbarism of slavery : Owen Lovejoy and the congressional assault on slavery -- Freemen to the rescue : Sherman M. Booth and the Fugitive Slave Act -- Free men, free soil, and free homes : Jane Swisshelm's search -- My triumph had no taint of compromise : George Washington Julian, free soiler-republican -- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude : David Wilmont and the containment of slavery -- The plight of slavery will cover the land : Benjamin and Edward Wade, brothers in antislavery politics -- Quite a female politician : Jessie Benton Frémont and the antislavery movement -- Crusaders in antislavery politics : a shared commitment
Looking back on his narrow reelection to the House of Representatives in 1862, George Washington Julian of Indiana remarked proudly that, having held fast to his antislavery position, he had secured a "triumph [with] no taint of compromise." Julian's was one of a small but critical number of voices who, beginning in the late 1830s, battled the institution of slavery through political activism
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ISBN:0807129763
0807148482
9780807132050
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