Lost President - A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America Dunley RuthPevná vazba
Lost President - A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America Dunley RuthPevná vazba Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith's Quixotic trail began in upstate New…
Specifikacia Lost President - A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America Dunley RuthPevná vazba
Lost President - A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America Dunley RuthPevná vazba
Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith's Quixotic trail began in upstate New York, wound westward to the Ohio and Wisconsin frontier, southward to the federally occupied Sea Islands of South Carolina, and finally ended aboard a northbound steamer.In Ohio, Smith became involved with a paramilitary group, the Hunters' Lodge, which elected him the "President of the Republic of Canada." In Wisconsin he achieved notoriety as the judge who dared to declare the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 unconstitutional, lighting one of many fuses that sparked the Civil War. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of his times in several states, personifying the nineteenth-century impulse to move across the American landscape.
Smith believed in civic movements based In South Carolina he fought passionately for the property rights of freedmen.