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From early legislation like the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 to Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, this book explores the background of some of America's most controversial moments. Spanning the first American century, it offers a detailed chronology of slavery and racism in early US politics and society.
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Table of ContentsForeword by Ken West
Preface
Part I: Slavery, Political Parties and the Supreme Court
1.¿A Pill Too Bitter to Swallow
The Presentation of a Complex History¿7 ¿ Racism in Context¿9
¿ Jim Crow¿11
2.¿The Most Oppressive Dominion
Slavery in the New World¿17 ¿ The Three-Fifths Compromise¿19 ¿ The Slave Power¿22 ¿ The Northwest Ordinance of 1787¿26 ¿ The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793¿27 ¿ The Slave Trade Act of 1794¿28 ¿ Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807¿29 ¿ The Missouri Compromise¿29 ¿ The Wilmot Provisö31 ¿ The Compromise of 1850¿36 ¿ Fugitive Slave Act of 1850¿37 ¿ Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854¿38 ¿ The Ostend Manifestö42
3.¿The Greatest Political Evil
The First Party System¿45 ¿ The Federalist Party¿47 ¿ The Emergence of the Whig Party¿49 ¿ The Free Soil Party¿51 ¿ Founders' Concerns About a Party System¿53 ¿ The Era of Good Feelings¿54 ¿ Democracy and Andrew Jackson¿55 ¿ The Second Party System¿56 ¿ A Change in Political Climate¿58 ¿ Republicans from 1854 to 1860¿59 ¿ The Know Nothing Movement¿62 ¿ The Opposition Party and the Constitutional Union Party¿64 ¿ The Election of 1860¿65
4.¿"A Slave, and Not a Citizen"
Slavery-Related Cases and the Supreme Court¿71 ¿ The Nullification Battle¿72 ¿ McCullough v. Maryland¿73 ¿ Gibbons v. Ogden¿74 ¿ The Antelope¿75 ¿ Roger B. Taney¿76 ¿ New York v. Miln¿78 ¿ The Amistad¿79 ¿ "Unless prohibited by state legislation"¿82 ¿ Strader v. Graham¿84 ¿ Dred Scott v. Sandford¿85 ¿ Ableman v. Booth¿92 ¿ Unintended Consequences¿93 ¿ Slavery and Racism in Context¿94
Part II: Politics During the Civil War Years
5.¿Let Us Cross Over the River
The Secession Movement in South Carolinä100 ¿ The Crittenden Compromise¿101 ¿ The Struggle Toward Secession¿103 ¿ Virginia's Debate¿105 ¿ Lincoln's Policies in 1861¿107 ¿ The Rise of the Copperheads¿112 ¿ Controversy About Secession and Slavery¿116 ¿ Suspension of Habeas Corpus¿118 ¿ Copperhead Editorials on Slavery¿120
6.¿The Age of the Copperheads, 1862-1863
The Evolution of a Struggle: 1862¿123 ¿ Copperhead Racism in the North¿125 ¿ Lincoln's Decision: The Emancipation Proclamation¿127 ¿ Copperhead Reaction¿131 ¿ The Copperhead Response¿135 ¿ The Intellectual Arm of the Copperheads¿136 ¿ Pro-Lincoln Responses¿138 ¿ The Enrollment Act¿139 ¿ Growing Copperhead Strength¿143 ¿ A Change in Sentiment¿145
7.¿Copperhead Resistance, 1864-1865
Possible Replacement Candidates for Lincoln¿148 ¿ Southern Economic Problems in 1864¿151 ¿ The Party Platforms¿154 ¿ Conspiracy in 1864 by Copperhead Groups¿158 ¿ Confederate Efforts at Negotiating Peace¿162 ¿ The Political Climate in 1864¿163 ¿ Political Responses to Lincoln's Victory¿165 ¿ Post-Election Conditions and the Thirteenth Amendment¿166
Part III: Politics During Reconstruction
8.¿Parties in Conflict-The Johnson Administration
Andrew Johnson and the Post-War Erä173 ¿ The New Administration and the South¿174 ¿ The Freedmen's Bureau Bill¿175 ¿ Black Codes in 1865 and 1866¿178 ¿ The Civil Rights Act of 1866¿180 ¿ Johnson's Loyalty to the Democrats¿182 ¿ Concerns Among Democrats¿185 ¿ The Election of 1868¿187
9.¿Presidents Grant and Hayes and the Ku Klux Klan
President Grant's Election¿192 ¿ Origins of Secret Societies in the U.S.¿195 ¿ The Klan's Purpose Evolves¿198 ¿ The Klan
As an Underground Terrorist Organization¿200 ¿ Grant's Second Administration¿203
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Michael C. Thomsett is the author, coauthor or compiler of many books including topical dictionaries, collections of quotations and history books. He lives in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Riassunto
From early legislation like the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 to Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, this book explores the background of some of America's most controversial moments. Spanning the first American century, it offers a detailed chronology of slavery and racism in early US politics and society.
