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The creation of a crusader : Senator Thomas Morris and the birth of the antislavery movement
- Title
- The creation of a crusader : Senator Thomas Morris and the birth of the antislavery movement / David C. Crago.
- Author
- Crago, David C.
- Publication
- Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Additional Authors
- Kent State University. Press, publisher.
- Description
- viii, 238 pages : illustration; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and constitutional antislavery without a biography devoted to him. In this first expansive study of Morris's life and contributions, David C. Crago persuasively argues that historians have wrongly marginalized Morris's role in the early antislavery movement. Morris was the first member of the US Senate to defend abolitionist positions in that body. Confronted with Southern demands for Congressional action to silence abolitionists and endorse slavery, he asserted that a proslavery interpretation of the Constitution was a distortion of the text. Instead, he argued, the Constitution neither identified people as property nor granted Congress the power to establish slavery in the territories or the District of Columbia. Although far outside the 1830s political consensus, Morris's ideas were quickly adopted by the nascent antislavery movement and became the cornerstone of antislavery political beliefs. Ultimately expelled from the Ohio Democratic Party and denied reelection to the Senate, within a decade his ideas would shape the core principles of both the Free-Soil and Republican Parties' platforms. The Creation of a Crusader fills an important gap in understanding the early American antislavery movement and sheds light on Morris's overlooked yet significant influence"--
- Series Statement
- American abolitionism and antislavery
- Uniform Title
- American abolitionism and antislavery.
- Alternative Title
- Senator Thomas Morris and the birth of the antislavery movement
- Subject
- Morris, Thomas, 1776-1844
- 1787-1899
- Politicians > Ohio > Biography
- Politicians > United States > Biography
- Abolitionists > Ohio > Biography
- Abolitionists > United States > Biography
- Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Politicians
- Politics and government
- Ohio > Politics and government > 1787-1865
- Ohio
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography (pages 168-232) and index.
- Contents
- Avoiding anything like agitation -- They are attempting to overwhelm us -- Keeper of the Jeffersonian conscience -- The absolute creed of the abolitionists -- I ask no forgiveness -- The beacon fires of liberty -- A rotten branch to be lopped off -- A torrent of eloquence and argument -- Independent opinions and ultra doctrines -- The power to abolish slavery in every state.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-1218
- ISBN
- 1606354639
- 9781606354636
- OCLC
- 1370125872
- Author
- Crago, David C., author.
- Title
- The creation of a crusader : Senator Thomas Morris and the birth of the antislavery movement / David C. Crago.
- Publisher
- Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- American abolitionism and antislaveryAmerican abolitionism and antislavery.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliography (pages 168-232) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1787-1899
- Added Author
- Kent State University. Press, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-1218