The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the SlavesUniversity Press of Kentucky Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America's political institutions underwent radical changes as they adapted to comprehensive security reforms. While the media exhaustively covered new security protocols in the executive office, little attention was paid to other federal agencies and branches that overhauled their systems to accommodate heightened security requirements. As a congressional fellow living in Washington, D.C., Jocelyn Jones Evans was an eyewitness to the institutional culture of Capitol Hill before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as during the subsequent anthrax scare. In One Nation Under Siege: Congress, Terrorism, and the Fate of American Democracy, Evans uses her personal experiences as the foundation for a richly researched analysis of how Congress changed as an institution and a national symbol in the wake of 9/11. Evans reveals not only physical transformations but also internal policy shifts that threaten democracy by limiting citizens' access to their elected leaders. The only comprehensive study of the effects of terrorism on the nation's capital, One Nation Under Siege provides a detailed investigation of how the nation's intricate political system adapted in times of crisis. It covers an essential chapter in the social and political history of the United States. |
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... slaveholders , would lead to peaceful emancipation . But when white southerners staunchly resisted reform and the progress of abolitionism in the North slowed , abolitionists began to consider the radical alternative of working directly ...
... slaveholders must do , not what slaves must do . The immediatists of the 1830s also rejected violent means . " Nat Turner's Southampton County , Virginia , slave revolt in August 1831 reinforced these ten- dencies . Claims that Garrison ...
... slaveholders as sinners . Within the nation's post- Calvinist Christianity , few doubted that God ordained the social order . Natural philosophy contended that a great chain of being , marked by physical and mental gradations ...
... slaveholding and racial discrimination to be damning sins . But the very things the three men op- posed helped to ... slaveholders and to the white women of the South . Black abolitionist women , such as Maria W. Stewart and Sojourner ...
... slaveholders for national office and followed a proslavery lead- ership in Congress . Slaveholding justices dominated the Su- preme Court , usually enjoying the support of their northern colleagues . John Tyler , president of the United ...
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AMBIGUOUS MANIFESTOS | 17 |
CIRCUMSTANCES | 37 |
PROCEEDINGS | 53 |
GOALS AND REACTIONS | 71 |
ABOLITIONISTS AND SLAVES | 97 |
CONVERGENCE | 117 |
CONCLUSION | 137 |
ADDRESS OF THE ANTISLAVERY CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF NEWYORK HELD IN PETERBORO JANUARY 19TH 1842 TO THE SL... | 149 |
RIGHTS OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE NATHANIEL E JOHNSON | 159 |
ADDRESS TO THE SLAVES OF THE UNITED STATES WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON | 165 |
AN ADDRESS TO THE SLAVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REJECTED BY THE NATIONAL CONVENTION 1848 HENRY HIG... | 175 |
A LETTER TO THE AMERICAN SLAVES FROM THOSE WHO HAVE FLED FROM AMERICAN SLAVERY GERRIT SMITH | 185 |
NOTES | 193 |
Bibliography | 219 |
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