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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"antebellum politics"”.
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
… history by exploring the role of indignation in antebellum American politics, focusing on the northern reaction to the May 1856 caning of Charles Sumner. The study begins by situating indignation in its nineteenth-century cultural context. A respectable type of anger, indignation was deeply tied …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… sentiment in the state.</p> <p>For most of the antebellum period, Democrats had controlled Indiana politically. In the 1852 national and state elections, Hoosiers emphatically endorsed the "finality" of the 1850 Compromise package by sweeping Democrats into office. However, in 1854 the People's …