From Sacagawea to Dorothea Lange to Sandra Day O'Connor; these twenty remarkable women followed their dreams; challenged convention; and created new opportunities for American Women―yesterday and today. Organized chronologically from 1805 to the present; this inspirational book includes women from a variety of racial; religious; professional; and call background.
#2286320 in Books 1998-10-07Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.34 x 1.07 x 6.35l; 1.34 #File Name: 0873386019304 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An Excellent Study of Antislavery PoliticsBy Andrew J. LangMcManus makes a forceful argument for the fundamentally antislavery character of the antebellum Republican Party. While this is an academic monograph; the author's style is crisp and readable. His conclusions provide significant support for a school of interpretations stressing the antislavery origins of the Civil War. I found it an especially stimulating to compare and contrast with William Gienapp's Origins of the Republican Party. Without going into detail; I will say that McManus' analysis strikes me as more persuasive on a number of counts. If you want to know what secessionists were worried about; this book is great place to start.I have to mention; that one of the book's great strengths is its attention to the instances in which a substantial minority of the voting public supported measures to extend more equal treatment of African-Americans (in this case the right to vote). McManus' study deserves a place alongside Bruce Laurie's study of Massachusetts; Beyond Garrison; as some of the most thoughtful works on the relationship between antislavery political parties and African-Americans.
