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The Antebellum Era Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860
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David A. Copeland
ISBN: 0-313-32079-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32079-8
440 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $76.95 (UK Sterling Price: £53.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Firsthand accounts offer students, scholars, or anyone interested in the pivotal period preceding the Civil War a look at how America's press covered important national issues and events of the day, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise through John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country, Copeland reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion. These are the primary documents that displayed the pulse of the nation.

Issues such as abolition, education, and women's rights are discussed along with important events such as the nullification crisis of 1832, the Mexican War, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Each of the 29 chapters introduces an event or issue and includes news articles that represented various American opinions. These introductory essays and primary-source documents illustrate how newspapers and magazines presented matters of great national import, in an age when the opinions of the press frequently in influenced broad American sentiment and action.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: Newspapers and Antebellum America
    The Missouri Compromise
    The Back-to-Africa Movement
    The Monroe Doctrine
    The Elections of 1824 and 1828
    The Massachusetts Public School Act, 1827
    The South Carolina Tariff Conflict, 1828
    The Indian Removal Act, 1830
    William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Movement, 1831
    Nat Turner and Slave Rebellions, 1831
    The Nullification Act, 1832
    The Battle of the Bank of the United States, 1832
    The Penny Press and the Moral War, 1833
    The Alamo and Texas Annexation, 1836
    The Trail of Tears, 1838
    The Amistad and Cinque, 1839
    The Dorr Rebellion, 1842
    Joseph Smith and the Mormons, 1844
    Manifest Destiny, 1845
    The Mexican War, 1846
    The Wilmot Proviso, 1846
    Seneca Falls and Women's Rights, 1848
    The California Gold Rush, 1848
    The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
    Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
    The Caning of Charles Sumner, 1856
    The Dred Scott Decision, 1857
    The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
    John Brown's Raid, 1859
    Chronology of Events
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: DAVID A. COPELAND is the A. J. Fletcher Professor of Communication at Elon University. He is the author Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (Greenwood, 2000), Colonial Newspapers: Character and Content (1997), and Benjamin Keach and the Development of Baptist Traditions in Seventeenth-Century England (2001). A past president of the American Journalism Historians Association, he was named Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Virginia Professor of the Year in 1998.
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