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Arguing
About Slavery : John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States
Congress
by William Lee Miller
Book Description In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched
that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag
rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected.
This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar
institution" into the national debate, a battle that some historians have
called "the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy." The campaign to make
slavery officially and respectably debatable was waged by John Quincy Adams
who spent nine years defying gags, accusations of treason, and assassination
threats. In the end he made his case through a combination of cunning and
sheer endurance. Telling this story with a brilliant command of detail,
Arguing About Slavery endows history with majestic sweep, heroism, and
moral weight.
Paperback - 592 pages 1 Vintage edition (January 1998)
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679768440
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