Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress

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Within the 1830s slavery used to be so deeply entrenched that it might now not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a “gag rule” to be sure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring “the unusual institution” into the national debate, a battle that some historians have known as “the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy.” The campaign to make slavery officially and respectably debatable used to be waged by John Quincy Adams who spent nine years defying gags, accusations of treason, and assassination threats. Finally he made his case through a combination of cunning and sheer staying power. Telling this story with a brilliant command of detail, Arguing About Slavery endows history with majestic sweep, heroism, and moral weight.

“Dramatic, immediate, intensely readable, fascinating and steadily moving.”–New York Times Book Review

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