Forlorn Hope of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forlorn Hope of Freedom write by Vernon L. Volpe. This book was released on 1990. Forlorn Hope of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abundantly illustrated with drawings and photos, this book nostalgically documents crafts and utensils connected with the kitchen, dairy, laundry, workings of the house, decorating of the house, and clothing. No bibliography. America's first political party devoted to emancipation and equal justice struggled against the determined hostility of the major parties, only to be buried by the resistance and apathy of the overwhelming majority of Northern voters. Volpe (history, Kearney State College) uses local voting records and systematic analysis to examine the ethno-religious roots of the third-party movement as well as its impact on antebellum social and political developments. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Forlorn Hope of Freedom
Forlorn Hope of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forlorn Hope of Freedom write by Vernon L. Volpe. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Forlorn Hope of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Liberty Party, 1840–1848
The Liberty Party, 1840–1848 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Liberty Party, 1840–1848 write by Reinhard O. Johnson. This book was released on 2009-06-15. The Liberty Party, 1840–1848 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, the party had grown to challenge the two mainstream political factions in many areas. In The Liberty Party, 1840–1848, Reinhard O. Johnson provides the first comprehensive history of this short-lived but important third party, detailing how it helped to bring the antislavery movement to the forefront of American politics and became the central institutional vehicle in the fight against slavery. As the major instrument of antislavery sentiment, the Liberty organization was more than a political party and included not only eligible voters but also disfranchised African Americans and women. Most party members held evangelical beliefs, and as Johnson relates, an intense religiosity permeated most of the group’s activities. He discusses the party’s founding and its national growth through the presidential election of 1844; its struggles to define itself amid serious internal disagreements over philosophy, strategy, and tactics in the ensuing years; and the reasons behind its decline and merger into the Free Soil coalition in 1848. Informative appendices include statewide results for all presidential and gubernatorial elections between 1840 and 1848, the Liberty Party’s 1844 platform, and short biographies of every Liberty member mentioned in the main text. Epic in scope and encyclopedic in detail, The Liberty Party, 1840–1848 is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics.
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 write by Joel Silbey. This book was released on 1994-07-01. The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world.
No Taint of Compromise
No Taint of Compromise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Taint of Compromise write by Frederick J. Blue. This book was released on 2006-09-01. No Taint of Compromise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No Taint of Compromise highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics -- those who undertook the yeoman's work of organizing parties, holding conventions, editing newspapers, and generally animating and agitating the discussion of issues related to slavery. They were a small but critical number of voices who, beginning in the late 1830s, battled the institution of slavery through political activism. Frederick J. Blue provides an in-depth account of the trials and accomplishments of eleven men and women who, in the face of great odds and powerful opposition, insisted that emancipation and racial equality could only be achieved through the political process: Alvan Stewart, a Liberty party organizer from New York; John Greenleaf Whittier, a Massachusetts poet, journalist, and Liberty activist; Charles Henry Langston, an Ohio African American educator; Owen Lovejoy, a congressman from Illinois; Sherman Booth, a journalist and Liberty organizer in Wisconsin; Jane Grey Swisshelm, a journalist in Pennsylvania and later Minnesota; George W. Julian, a congressman from Indiana; David Wilmot, a congressman from Pennsylvania; Benjamin and Edward Wade, a senator and a congressman, respectively, from Ohio; and Jessie Benton Frémont of Missouri and California, wife of the Republican presidential nominee.Their stories, brought together in this comparative biographical study, enrich our understanding of the political crisis over slavery that led to the Civil War.
