No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

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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.

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Free Soilers: Third Party Politics, 1848-54

(At the beginning of the war with Mexico in 1846 many nort...)

At the beginning of the war with Mexico in 1846 many northerners felt that they must keep slavery from extending into any newly acquired territories, in support of the Wilmot Proviso. When Democrats and Whigs refused to take a stand on this issue in the presidential election of 1848, these northerners formed the Free Soil party. In a full-scale examination of the party's six-year history (1848-54), Blue traces the origin of the Free Soil vote and the development of party leaders' thinking, as well as that of antislavery leaders who refused to join.

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The Free Soilers, Third Party Politics, 1848-54

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Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics

(Chase wanted so much to make a name for himself in Americ...)

Chase wanted so much to make a name for himself in American politics that early in his career he considered changing his fishy appellation to the more important sounding Spencer Paynce Cheyce. That alteration never came about, but even without a fancy name, the New England-born, Ohio-bred attorney devoted his life to public serve at many levels of government. Chase served as Free-Soil Senator from Ohio, as Governor of that pivotal Midwestern state, as Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, and as Chief Justice of the United States, although he never realized his primary ambition the presidency. Complex, overly ambitious, and deeply religious, Chase perhaps undermined his presidential hopes partly by his strong antislavery stance, but primarily by his failure to organize systematically his drive for national office. Chase worked hard for the rights of fugitive slaves and became prominent in the antislavery movement and in the establishment of the Liberty and Free-Soil parties, but he was often accused of being concerned only with his personal advancement. Frederick Blue has done extensive research among Chase s voluminous and often hard-to-read correspondence, and has incorporated pertinent collateral primary and secondary sources as well, to produce the first modern biography of this key Civil War era personality. Blue searches for the man behind the actions, and his conclusions are enlightening and fascinating. Chase comes alive as an individual who overcomes personal tragedy and finds happiness and fulfillment perhaps in no other place than in his work.

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No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) by Blue, Frederick J. (2004) Hardcover

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