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Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum democracy
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ISBN: 9781139526371 1139526375 1283575051 9781283575058 9781139176033 113917603X 9781107024786 1107024781 9781107639010 113954036X 1107236207 1139532235 1139527576 9786613887504 1139528769 1139531042 1107639018 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This thematic biography demonstrates how Stephen Douglas's path from a conflicted youth in Vermont to dim prospects in New York to overnight stardom in Illinois led to his identification with the Democratic Party and his belief that the federal government should respect the diversity of states and territories. His relationships with his mother, sister, teachers, brothers-in-law, other men and two wives are explored in depth. When he conducted the first cross-country campaign by a presidential candidate in American history, few among the hundreds of thousands that saw him in 1860 knew that his wife and he had just lost their infant daughter or that Douglas controlled a large Mississippi slave plantation. His story illuminates the gap between democracy then and today. The book draws on a variety of previously unexamined sources.


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Making an antislavery nation
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ISBN: 0252099966 0252041364 0252085566 9780252099960 9780252041365 Year: 2017 Publisher: Urbana


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When Lincoln came to Egypt
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ISBN: 9780809335534 0809335530 9780809335527 0809335522 Year: 2016 Publisher: Carbondale

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