When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War

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Resources; a history of the Radical Republicans During the Civil War

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A history of the formation of the Republican Party in Wisconsin in 1854, its campaign on behalf of abolition in Kansas, and its actions during the Civil War, focusing in particular on the Radical Republicans like Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John and Bessie Benton Fremont, Henry David Thoreau, prominent black Republicans, and others and their efforts towards the abolition of slavery and the guarantee of civil rights before, during and after the Civil War. Also examines the strained relationship abolitionist John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame had with many in the Republican Party who deemed him too radical.

Until FDR's New Deal of the 1930s began to court away their votes, most African-Americans in the US voted Republican as it was the party of Lincoln and emancipation. Keith's book examines how that black allegiance to the GOP originally came about.

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Keith, LeeAnna

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Hill and Wang

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2020

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Lee Freeman

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Keith, LeeAnna, “When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War,” Shoals Black History, accessed April 26, 2024, https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/1102.

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