03621oam 22005654a 450 991099647850332120250425222348.09780813942292(print)0813942292(print)97808139423080813942306(CKB)4100000007742707(MiAaPQ)EBC5719657(OCoLC)1089516216(MdBmJHUP)muse73489(Perlego)857143(EXLCZ)99410000000774270720181115h20192019 uy 0engur|n#|||a|||atxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican abolitionism its direct political impact from colonial times into Reconstruction /Stanley HarroldCharlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2019.Baltimore, Maryland :Project MUSE,2019©20191 online resource (xi, 286 pages)A nation divided: studies in the Civil War era9780813942292 0813942292 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 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 effect 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 Reconstruction.Nation divided.SlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryAbolitionistsUnited StatesHistoryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesPolitics and government1783-1865SlaveryPolitical aspectsHistory.AbolitionistsHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.326.80973Harrold Stanley1604048MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910996478503321American abolitionism4371830UNINA