LEADER 03621oam 22005654a 450 001 9910996478503321 005 20250425222348.0 010 $z9780813942292$b(print) 010 $z0813942292$b(print) 010 $a9780813942308 010 $a0813942306 035 $a(CKB)4100000007742707 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5719657 035 $a(OCoLC)1089516216 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73489 035 $a(Perlego)857143 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007742707 100 $a20181115h20192019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#|||a|||a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican abolitionism $eits direct political impact from colonial times into Reconstruction /$fStanley Harrold 210 1$aCharlottesville :$cUniversity of Virginia Press,$d2019. 210 3$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject MUSE,$d2019 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) 225 0 $aA nation divided: studies in the Civil War era 311 08$a9780813942292 311 08$a0813942292 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDirect 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. 330 8 $aThis ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists' political tactics-petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians-and on their disruptions of slavery itself. Harrold begins with the abolition movement's relationship to politics and government in the northern American colonies and goes on to evaluate its effect in a number of crucial contexts--the U.S. Congress during the 1790s, the Missouri Compromise, the struggle over slavery in Illinois during the 1820s, and abolitionist petitioning of Congress during that same decade. He shows how the rise of "immediate" abolitionism, with its emphasis on moral suasion, did not diminish direct abolitionists' impact on Congress during the 1830s and 1840s. The book also addresses abolitionists' direct actions against slavery itself, aiding escaped or kidnapped slaves, which led southern politicians to demand the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a major flashpoint of antebellum politics. Finally, Harrold investigates the relationship between abolitionists and the Republican Party through the Civil War and Reconstruction. 410 0$aNation divided. 606 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAbolitionists$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1865 615 0$aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aAbolitionists$xHistory. 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory. 676 $a326.80973 700 $aHarrold$b Stanley$01604048 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910996478503321 996 $aAmerican abolitionism$94371830 997 $aUNINA