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When it was grand : the radical Republican history of the Civil War /

A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keith, LeeAnna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History > 19th century.
Political parties > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Radicalism > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1849-1877.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Great Old Party
  • Filibustering in Kansas
  • The antislavery resistance
  • Transcendental politics
  • Free soil, free men, Fremont
  • Dred Scott nullification
  • John Brownism
  • House divided
  • Harper's Ferry
  • Wide awake
  • Military emancipation
  • Wolf killers
  • Arming African Americans
  • Turning the Mississippi
  • Revolution by confiscation
  • Republican nation-building
  • Never surrender the flag
  • Wearing the brass letter
  • Black Republicans
  • Postscript: Age of transcendence.