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When it was grand : the radical Republican history of the Civil War / LeeAnna Keith

Author
Keith, LeeAnna
Published
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
340 pages : photographs ; 24 cm

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Contents
Prologue: Great Old Party -- Filibustering in Kansas -- The antislavery resistance -- Transcendental politics -- Free soil, free men, Fremont -- Dred Scott nullification -- John Brownism -- House divided -- Harper's Ferry -- Wide awake -- Military emancipation -- Wolf killers -- Arming African Americans -- Turning the Mississippi -- Revolution by confiscation -- Republican nation-building -- Never surrender the flag -- Wearing the brass letter -- Black Republicans -- Postscript: Age of transcendence.
Summary
"A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"--
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ISBN
9780809080311 (hardcover)
0809080311
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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