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Wide Awake The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln And Spurred The Civil War Jon Grinspan

SKU: BELL-57142066

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 35.17 MB

Pages: 352

Author: Jon Grinspan

ISBN: 9781639730643, 1639730648

Language: English

Year: 2024

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Wide Awake The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln And Spurred The Civil War Jon Grinspan by Jon Grinspan 9781639730643, 1639730648 instant download after payment.

"A gifted writer."-Eric Foner, The Nation

A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war.
At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes—mostly working-class Americans in their twenties—became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history. To some, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others, it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the...