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95035075 |
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0394569229 |
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9780394569222 |
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0679768440 |
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(pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780679768449 |
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AU@ |
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000011830158 |
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GBVCP |
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187512876 |
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2572622 |
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YDXCP |
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341487 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)32893199 |
| Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)1102198832 |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us--- |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
AJMA |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
E338 |
| Item number |
.M65 1996 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
973.5 Mil |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
973.5 Mil |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Miller, William Lee. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Arguing about slavery |
| Remainder of title |
the great battle in the United States Congress |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
William Lee Miller. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
A.A. Knopf, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1996. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 577 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-553) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introductions -- Immediate representatives -- The fiends and their work -- Shut the door in their face -- The first son of the Republic -- The tedium and sublimity of Republican government -- The most important question ever to come before the house -- Welcome to the Twenty-Fifth Congress of the United States -- The great moral monument -- The tribulation of the whigs -- The trials -- Endings -- Epilogues. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Here is the United States Congress in the 1830s, grappling (or trying unsuccessfully to avoid grappling) with the gravest moral dilemma inherited from the framers of the Constitution. Here is the concept (and reality) of the ownership of human beings confronting three of the most powerful ideas of the time: American republicanism, American civil liberties, American representative government. This book re-creates an episode in our past, now forgotten, that once stirred and engrossed the nation: the congressional fight over petitions against slavery. The action takes place in the House of Representatives. Beginning in 1835, a new flood of abolitionist petitions pours into the House. The powers-that-be respond with a gag rule as their means of keeping these appeals off the House floor and excluding them from national discussion. A small band of congressmen, led by former president John Quincy Adams, battles against successive versions of the gag and introduces petitions in spite of it. Then, in February 1837, Adams raises the stakes by forcing the House to cope with what he calls "The Most Important Question to come before this House since its first origin": Do slaves have the right of petition? When the Whigs take over in 1841, some expect the gag rule to be repudiated, but instead it is made permanent. A small insurgent group of Whigs, collaborating with Adams, opposes party policy and makes opposition to slavery their top priority. They constitute the seedbed for the formation of the Republican Party which will be, in the next decade, the beginning of the end of slavery. Congressional leaders try to censure Adams, and his well-publicized "trial" in the House brings the entire matter to the nation's attention. The anti-Adams effort fails, and finally, after nine years of persistent support of the right of petition, Adams succeeds in defeating the gag rule. Throughout, one can see the gradual assembling not only of the political but also of the moral and intellectual elements for the ultimate assault on American slavery. When John Quincy Adams dies, virtually on the House floor, the young congressman Abraham Lincoln is sitting in the chamber. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
108353 |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Adams, John Quincy, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1767-1848. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
United States. |
| Subordinate unit |
Congress |
| General subdivision |
Freedom of debate. |
| 610 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
USA |
| Subordinate unit |
Congress |
| 610 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Subordinate unit |
. |
| 648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM |
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| Chronological term |
1800-1899 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Slavery |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Political debate |
| Source of heading or term |
History |
| Form subdivision |
Slavery |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th Century |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Political division |
| Source of heading or term |
North vs. South |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th Century |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
United States Congress |
| Form subdivision |
Years preceeding the Civil War |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th Century |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Politics and government. |
| 650 #1 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Slavery |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Human Rights |
| General subdivision |
history. |
| 650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Freedom. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
1815-1861. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Display text |
Online version: |
| Main entry heading |
Miller, William Lee. |
| Title |
Arguing about slavery. |
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1996 |
| Record control number |
(OCoLC)604913401 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |