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Slavery, Disunion, and the Violent Election of 1856

April 19, 2024
John Bicknell

The election of 1856 was the most violent peacetime election in American history. For the first time, a national political party with a legitimate chance to win the presidency campaigned on an anti-slavery platform, putting a fright into Southern politicians, the slave owners they represented, and their Northern sympathizers. After decades of blustering about secession […]

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