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- 81: How Did Mao Change The Face Of
- ... who in 1956 had justified decentralization as a means to building a "strong socialist state," still believed in the need for state power. Mao asserted that the demand for the abolition of "heads" (leaders), which had been heard in their city, was "extreme anarchism" and "most reactionary"; in fact, he stated, there would "always be heads." Communes, he added, were "too ...
- 82: Henry Thoreau
- ... Thoreau reminds us of what we are and what we yet may be. Many of Thoreau's political views stemmed from the fact that he took an early interest in abolition. He spoke at several antislavery conventions, especially in the Northern states. He was the first person to defend John Brown after the raid on Harper’s Ferry. He did so ...
- 83: First And Second Reconstructio
- ... 4 Ibid. p. 152. 5 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) pp.229-231. 6 Daniel J. Mcinerney, The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and the Republican Party (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994) p.151. 7 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) pp.228-251. 8 ...
- 84: Famous African Americans
- ... North Star later renamed Frederick Douglass's Paper in Rochester, N. Y. Unlike Garrison, he had come to believe that political action rather than moral persuasion would bring about the abolition of slavery. Douglass also resented Garrison's view that blacks did not have the ability to lead the antislavery movement. By 1853, he had broken with Garrison and become a ...
- 85: Expansion Of Government Power
- ... purpose of the war to something far off from what had been the initial purpose. From fighting for the preservation of the Union, Northerners readily began to accept that the abolition of slavery was the cause of the war for them, not the Union. Lincoln and his power made this happen. As Reconstruction began, our government was given the full responsibility ...
- 86: Defense Of Slavery
- ... I am not trying to imply that it would be good if slavery was in place today, but the repercussions are still being felt to this day because of the abolition of the institution.
- 87: Causes Of The American Civil W
- ... Beecher Stowe wrote on the topic of slavery and helped lead the movement against it. In his newspaper, The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison shared his wish for complete and immediate abolition: "tell a mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present." The ...
- 88: Civil War: Northern Attitudes
- ... Large numbers of Polish immigrants settled in Detroit, becoming the city’s largest ethnic group. New Jersey New Jersey did not play an important role in the movement for the abolition of slavery. In 1804 a law for the gradual emancipation of slaves was passed, but not until 1846 was slavery permanently abolished. Even then, slaves were bound over to their ...
- 89: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... Russells Magazine and reflecting on the mounting sectional tensions of the prewar years. In a letter to William dated March 26, 1856, Charles complained that the "Government is becoming more abolition every day" and he predicted that the "Union may last a few years longer, but unless a decided change takes place in Northern politics, it must at last go under ...
- 90: Civil War 2
- ... Mexico in favor of the latter and compensated Texas by federal assumption of debts contracted during its existence as an Independent Republic. Clay’s third pair of resolutions called for abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia but a guarantee of slavery itself in the District. As if these six proposals yielded more to the North then to ...
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