The Dred Scott Case

The Dred Scott Case

Author: Roger Brooke Taney

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017251265

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The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.


The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856

The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856

Author: William J. Cooper, Jr.

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1980-06-01

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 0807107751

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The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern antebellum politics, The South and the Politics of Slavery convincingly argues that national and slavery-related issues were the overriding concerns of southern politics during these years. Accordingly, southern voters saw their parties, both Democratic and Whig, as the advocates and guardians of southern rights in the nation. William Cooper traces and analyzes the history of southern politics from the formation of the Democratic party in the late 1820s to the demise of the Democratic-Whig struggle in the 1850s, reporting on attitudes and reactions in each of the eleven states that were to form the Confederacy. Focusing on southern politicians and parties, Cooper emphasizes their relationship with each other, with their northern counterparts, and with southern voters, and he explores the connections between the values of southern white society and its parties and politicians. Based on extensive research in regional political manuscripts and newspapers, this study will be valuable to all historians of the period for the information and insight it provides on the role of the South in politics of the nation during the lifespan of the Jacksonian party system.


HIST OF MISSOURI COMPROMISE &

HIST OF MISSOURI COMPROMISE &

Author: Archibald Mrs Dixon, 1829-1907

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9781362985433

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


History of Missouri Compromise and Slavery in American Politics; A True History of the Missouri Compromise and Its Repeal, and of African Slavery as a

History of Missouri Compromise and Slavery in American Politics; A True History of the Missouri Compromise and Its Repeal, and of African Slavery as a

Author: Archibald Dixon

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-18

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9781378012734

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Our Documents

Our Documents

Author: The National Archives

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-07-04

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0198042272

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Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.


Compromise and the American Founding

Compromise and the American Founding

Author: Alin Fumurescu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1108415873

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An original interpretation of 'the people's two bodies' that illuminates the opposite attitudes toward compromise throughout the American founding.


Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Author: Michael Burlingame

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 2028

ISBN-13: 0801889936

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In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s.