And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil WarAlgora Publishing, 2005 - 284 páginas This detailed account of slavery in America, from Jamestown through the Civil War, explains its economic importance in the North as well as the South, its impact on the political dynamics of the Civil War, and the moral dilemmas it posed--Provided by publisher. |
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... slaveholders. And not only the presidents: the Office of Speaker of the House was held by a slaveholder for 28 of the nation's first 35 years. The president pro- tem of the Senate throughout this period was a slaveholder. The majority ...
... slaveholders. And not only the presidents: the Office of Speaker of the House was held by a slaveholder for 28 of the nation's first 35 years. The president pro- tem of the Senate throughout this period was a slaveholder. The majority ...
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... slaveholders in the Cotton South was fourteen times that of non-slaveholders. Slaveholders owned 93% of the region's agricultural wealth. Around one-fourth of Southern whites would own slaves in 1860 but a far higher percentage had an ...
... slaveholders in the Cotton South was fourteen times that of non-slaveholders. Slaveholders owned 93% of the region's agricultural wealth. Around one-fourth of Southern whites would own slaves in 1860 but a far higher percentage had an ...
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... slaveholders, not to mention the hostile response from many slave- holders (and slaves). Outsiders' criticism of slavery and Southern decadence made the South more defensive. Southern politics came to revolve around the defense of ...
... slaveholders, not to mention the hostile response from many slave- holders (and slaves). Outsiders' criticism of slavery and Southern decadence made the South more defensive. Southern politics came to revolve around the defense of ...
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... slaveholders. During the antebellum era, when Northerners turned from rigid Calvinism to a variety of reform movements, the South became the home of religious and social orthodoxy. The reform movements in the North, which aimed at ...
... slaveholders. During the antebellum era, when Northerners turned from rigid Calvinism to a variety of reform movements, the South became the home of religious and social orthodoxy. The reform movements in the North, which aimed at ...
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One Party Dead The Other Split | 71 |
7 Abraham Lincoln in Illinois | 83 |
A Dark Horse | 93 |
Opportunity Squandered | 149 |
15 Slaughter at Fredericksburg Jubilee with Emancipation | 163 |
Lincolns Depression Grows | 175 |
The Writing on the Wall | 183 |
General Grant | 199 |
Something Went Out of the War | 211 |
20 Confederate Disaster in Tennessee And the 13th Amendment | 223 |
21 Lee Surrenders at Appomattox | 235 |
9 Lincoln Elected Seven States Defected | 103 |
10 An Act of War | 113 |
Disillusion and Frustration | 121 |
LargeScale Killing Shocks the Nation | 131 |
McClellan spooked by Lee | 139 |
22 Lincoln Assassinated His Severe Task Done | 245 |
The Man John Quincy Adams was Looking For | 257 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 277 |
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
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Página 237 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Página 115 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Página 236 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Página 236 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 237 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who • have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 93 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in...
Página 107 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Página 236 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Página 93 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.