History Of The Rise And Fall Of The Slave Power In America - Softcover

Henry Wilson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461706199 ISBN 13: 9780461706192

Publisher: HardPress, 1874

Synopsis

History Of The Rise And Fall Of The Slave Power In America by Henry Wilson. This onetime reporter-turned-historian provides a sweeping account of how slavery and the so-called 'Slave Power' shaped American politics from colonial times through the antebellum era. Drawing on prefaces and official records, Wilson chronicles the origins of slavery in the colonies, the growth of slave-trading, and the emergence of a powerful slaveholding class that influenced Congress and the presidency. He surveys abolitionist movements, the formation of early anti-slavery societies, and the rise of immediate emancipation as a political and moral program, including the campaigns against the slave trade, fugitive-slave laws, and the manipulation of territorial expansion (Ordinances of 1787, Missouri Compromise, and the Northwest and Arkansas territories). The work also documents the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society, the New England and New York antislavery organizations, the role of figures like Garrison, Lundy, and Tappan, and the broader struggle to reconcile liberty with the institution of slavery. It presents a critical view of the Constitution’s compromises that preserved slavery for generations, and it illustrates how emancipation finally emerged through political conflict, abolitionist activism, and moral suasion.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1874
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461706199
• ISBN 13: 9780461706192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320