Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress Paperback - 1998
by William Lee Miller
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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ON DECEMBER 16, 1835, an otherwise undistinguished thirty-eight-year-old congressman named John Fairfield, from York County, Maine, rose upon his legs in the United States House of Representatives to present the first of session's petition for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
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In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar institution" into the national debate, a battle that some historians have called "the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy." The campaign to make slavery officially and respectably debatable was waged by John Quincy Adams who spent nine years defying gags, accusations of treason, and assassination threats. In the end he made his case through a combination of cunning and sheer endurance. Telling this story with a brilliant command of detail, Arguing About Slavery endows history with majestic sweep, heroism, and moral weight.
"Dramatic, immediate, intensely readable, fascinating and often moving."--New York Times Book Review
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- Title Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress
- Author William Lee Miller
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date January 12, 1998
- ISBN 9780679768449 / 0679768440
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.4 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.56 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Adams, John Quincy, United States - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95035075
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.5
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