Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. (Signed)


First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. The politics of race and slavery in Philadelphia form the 1850s through the Civil War. With chapters on “Abolitionism and the Fugitive Slave Question”; “The Territorial Question and the Democratic Party”; “John Brown’s Raid”; “Dissenters, Slaves and Volunteers”; and “Democrats, Negroes, and Conscripts.” Inscribed by the author to the Franklin D. Roosevelt and New Deal scholar, William Leuchtenburg (b. 1922).


Description: Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. (Signed)

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1965). Very good in publisher’s cloth and dustwrapper.

[3729629]

Price: $35.00

See all items in African-American History
See all items by