When it was grand : the radical Republican history of the Civil War /
Keith, LeeAnna,
When it was grand : the radical Republican history of the Civil War / LeeAnna Keith. - First edition. - 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"--
9780809080311 0809080311
2019028465
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--19th century.
Political parties--History--United States--19th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Radicalism--History--United States--19th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
When it was grand : the radical Republican history of the Civil War / LeeAnna Keith. - First edition. - 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"--
9780809080311 0809080311
2019028465
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--19th century.
Political parties--History--United States--19th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Radicalism--History--United States--19th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.