William Lee Miller

Arguing about Slavery

John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress

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In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a gag rule to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring the peculiar institution into the national debate, a battle that some historians have called the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy. The campaign to make slavery officially and respectably debatable was waged by John Quincy Adams who spent nine years defying gags, accusations of treason, and assassination threats. In the end he made his case through a combination of cunning and sheer end… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-679-76844-9
EAN: 9780679768449
Produktnummer: 15153451
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Seitenangabe: 592 S.
Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.7 cm x D4.3 cm 527 g
Gewicht: 527

Über den Autor

William Lee Miller has taught at Yale University, Smith College, Indiana University, and the University of Virginia, where he is currently Miller Center of Public Affairs Scholar in Ethics and Institutions. He has been an editor and writer on a political magazine, a speechwriter, and a three-term alderman. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Arguing About Slavery, which won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress.