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Arguing about slavery the great battle in the United States Congress

William Lee Miller

New York A.A. Knopf 1996

Localização: FDRP - Fac. Direito de Ribeirão Preto  ANTÔNIO JUNQUEIRA DE AZEVEDO  (973 M6526a 24384/16 ) e outros locais(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Arguing about slavery the great battle in the United States Congress
  • Autor: William Lee Miller
  • Assuntos: Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848); United States Congress -- Freedom of debate; États-Unis Congress -- Comptes rendus des débats; Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Esclavitud -- Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Siglo XIX; ESCRAVIDÃO -- ESTADOS UNIDOS; HISTÓRIA DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-553) and index
  • Descrição: Introductions -- Immediate representatives -- The fiends and their work -- Shut the door in their face -- The first son of the Republic -- The tedium and sublimity of Republican government -- The most important question ever to come before the house -- Welcome to the Twenty-Fifth Congress of the United States -- The great moral monument -- The tribulation of the whigs -- The trials -- Endings -- Epilogues
    Here is the United States Congress in the 1830s, grappling (or trying unsuccessfully to avoid grappling) with the gravest moral dilemma inherited from the framers of the Constitution. Here is the concept (and reality) of the ownership of human beings confronting three of the most powerful ideas of the time: American republicanism, American civil liberties, American representative government. This book re-creates an episode in our past, now forgotten, that once stirred and engrossed the nation: the congressional fight over petitions against slavery. The action takes place in the House of Representatives. Beginning in 1835, a new flood of abolitionist petitions pours into the House. The powers-that-be respond with a gag rule as their means of keeping these appeals off the House floor and excluding them from national discussion. A small band of congressmen, led by former president John Quincy Adams, battles against successive versions of the gag and introduces petitions in spite of it. Then, in February 1837, Adams raises the stakes by forcing the House to cope with what he calls "The Most Important Question to come before this House since its first origin": Do slaves have the right of petition? When the Whigs take over in 1841, some expect the gag rule to be repudiated, but instead it is made permanent. A small insurgent group of Whigs, collaborating with Adams, opposes party policy and makes opposition to slavery their top priority. They constitute the seedbed for the formation of the Republican Party which will be, in the next decade, the beginning of the end of slavery. Congressional leaders try to censure Adams, and his well-publicized "trial" in the House brings the entire matter to the nation's attention. The anti-Adams effort fails, and finally, after nine years of persistent support of the right of petition, Adams succeeds in defeating the gag rule. Throughout, one can see the gradual assembling not only of the political but also of the moral and i
  • Editor: New York A.A. Knopf
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1996
  • Formato: x, 577 p 25 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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