| If the right-wingers disdain Lincoln for being too aggressively antislavery, the left-wingers scorn him for not being antislavery enough. |
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| The antislavery crusade, beginning in England in the second half of the eighteenth century, thus emerges as a singular, epoch-making event. |
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| Certainly, the Wesley Connection of Methodists took an overtly antislavery position. |
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| What Thoreau did not overlook was his neighbors' reluctance to put their antislavery sentiments into action. |
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| Free Church Presbyterians were certainly high on Douglass' list of desirable converts to the antislavery cause. |
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| It brought together antislavery sectionalists and other northern dissenters from the old party system. |
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| Defeated for reelection that year, he returned to his law practice and antislavery agitation in Indiana. |
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| For starters, most of the antislavery content dropped out of the stage shows as producers concentrated on elaborate set pieces that could entertain or enthrall audiences. |
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| The case concerned protecting the emerging corporate order from the Court's more extreme members as much as it did resistance to the antislavery movement. |
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| It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U. S. history. |
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| Polish-born American reformer and suffragist, an active figure in the 19th-century women's rights, antislavery, and temperance movements. |
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| Southern slaveholders saw homesteaders as antislavery advocates, and so they too blocked homestead legislation. |
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| Clay's purpose was to maintain a balance between free and slave states and to satisfy both proslavery and antislavery forces. |
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| The antislavery campaigners wanted to break down the entire colonial chain. |
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| Meanwhile in Boston, William Lloyd Garrison tarred as hypocrites those who blamed the antislavery movement for Turner's revolt. |
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| The antislavery movement was suppressed throughout the South, with harsh new laws curtailing black liberties more tightly than ever before. |
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| The first two volumes concentrated almost exclusively on the white male leaders of the antislavery campaign. |
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| In the short term, however, the Haitian Revolution actually slowed the official antislavery campaign. |
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| Brown was captured by federal troops and subsequently was tried and hanged in Charles Town, but his exploits inflamed tensions between the country's proslavery and antislavery factions. |
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| It was over territories west of the Mississippi that the proslavery and antislavery forces collided. |
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| No cases have been successfully prosecuted under the antislavery law despite the fact that 'de facto' slavery exists in Mauritania. |
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| At other moments, as with the young, freethinking Lincoln, who was antislavery as a young man, when he was still aggressively atheist — it was not. |
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| The Drakes' antislavery involvement began in Boston and gained momentum in Leominster. |
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| However, public opinion against slavery created a political liability for politicians in Britain, where the antislavery movement was powerful. |
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| But the country lawyer scored real blows, holding Douglas to the contradiction between popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision, which forbade antislavery settlers from prohibiting slavery in their territories. |
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| Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content. |
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| Shadd was instrumental in forming the Provincial Union, an antislavery organization run by and for the Black community for which the Freeman was the official organ. |
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| Before the 1830s the antislavery groups called for gradual emancipation. |
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| In this Article, I seek to revive his memory by tracing the arc of his career from antislavery lawyer, to antislavery politician, to Chief Justice of the United States. |
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