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Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress

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Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress - Miller, William Lee
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In the 1830s, slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a gag rule summarily rejecting all anti-slavery petitions delivered to it. This stirring work of history chronicles John Quincy Adams's nine-year battle to overturn that rule and make slavery subject to parliamentary debate--a battle that paved the way for the Civil War.

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Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress 1998, Vintage, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780679768449

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