1872 History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson

Description: Nice condition set of the "History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America" by Henry Wilson. Complete set in three volumes. Published by James R. Osgood and Company in New York. Volume I - 1872 1st edition; Volume II - 1874 2nd edition; Volume III - 1877 1st edition. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering on the front covers and spines. The set is an early history of the Civil War. Hefty set - the volumes contain 670, 720, and 774 numbered pages, respectively. Each volume contains an Index at the back. Henry Wilson served as Vice President of the United States under the second term of President Ulysses S. Grant. He was considered a "Radical Republican" and was a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of "Slave Power," the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country. His experience as a militia general, organizer, commander of a Union Army regiment, and chairman of the Senate military committees enabled him to assist the Abraham Lincoln administrations in the organization and oversight of the Union Army and Union Navy. He successfully authored bills that outlawed slavery in Washington, D.C., and incorporated African Americans in the Union Civil War effort in 1862. From the author's Preface: "I propose to write a history of the beginning and growth, the expansion and extinction, of slavery; also of the development and extirpation of the Slave Power. This work will be comprised of three volumes of some one hundred and thirty chapters, and about two thousand pages. The first and second volumes will trace slavery and portray its influences from its introduction in 1620 to the opening of the Civil War. The third volume will describe that series of measures by which slavery was extinguished and the Slave Power broken, the Union reconstructed on the basis of freedom, and citizenship, with civil and political rights, assured to all."

Price: 475 USD

Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire

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