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In this book, Cleves argues that American fears of the violence of the French Revolution led to antislavery, antiwar, and public education movements.
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In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to eradicate southern slavery and its local influence in the contentious milieu of four new states carved out of the Northwest Territory: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. While the Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the region in 1787, in reality both it and racism continued to exert strong influence in the Old Northwest, as seen in the race-based limitations of civil liberties there. Indeed, these states comprised the central battleground over race and rights in antebellum America, in a time when race's social meaning was deeply infused ...
A record of the descendants of all branches of the Thurston family in the United States.
Vol. 30 includes "The first half century of the Essex Institute," and "List of present members."