Arguing about Slavery
Subtitle: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress
Publisher: Vintage; Vintage Books
Published: January 12, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780679768449
Subjects: Slavery; History: American; Government - U.S. Government; History; History - U.S.; United States - 19th Century; United States; Politics and government; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / General; Political Science-Government - U.S. Government; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; 1815-1861; 19th century
First sentence: 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.