Wide awake : the forgotten force that elected Lincoln and spurred the Civil War
Grinspan, Jon2024
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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 American history. This is the propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal factor in America's march to the Civil War.
Main title:
Author:
Grinspan, Jon, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2024.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781639730643 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
973.7114973.711
Language:
English
Subject:
Wide AwakesAntislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryYouth -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- CausesHistory
BRN:
2713723