Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865Richard Hofstadter Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1958 - 448페이지 A collection of documentary selections offering insight into the major political and social issues of American history. These documentary selections are intended to provide a generous sampling from the major political controversies in American history. The general introductions, together with the headnotes supplied for each selection, will serve to set the documents in their historical context in such a way as to make it possible for a reader with a modest knowledge of American history to read them profitably and without further supplement ... Almost everything in these volumes can be described as argumentative. These documents reproduce the words of major actors of American political history - whether judges, statesmen, legislative bodies, or private individuals of influence - engaged in debating issues of central importance. |
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... slavery was evil and who hoped it would eventually disappear from the South . But Jefferson's death in 1826 coincided with the demise of Southern anti - slavery feeling . The invention of the cotton gin had made slavery profitable in ...
... slavery was evil and who hoped it would eventually disappear from the South . But Jefferson's death in 1826 coincided with the demise of Southern anti - slavery feeling . The invention of the cotton gin had made slavery profitable in ...
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... SLAVERY AS IT IS , 1839 Welds Slavery As It Is : Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses was probably the most important anti- slavery work published before Uncle Tom's Cabin . While it was a picture only of the excesses of slavery rather ...
... SLAVERY AS IT IS , 1839 Welds Slavery As It Is : Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses was probably the most important anti- slavery work published before Uncle Tom's Cabin . While it was a picture only of the excesses of slavery rather ...
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... slavery in the territories is unconstitutional - that they have reached this proposition as a conclusion from their former proposition , that the Constitution of the United States ex- pressly recognizes property in slaves , and from ...
... slavery in the territories is unconstitutional - that they have reached this proposition as a conclusion from their former proposition , that the Constitution of the United States ex- pressly recognizes property in slaves , and from ...
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Confederacy 3845 397 Dred Scott decision 31213 | 5 |
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