Word: abolitionists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Civil War, U. S. Negroes began to clamor for official positions with the Government which had set them free. An active early colored Abolitionist was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, slave son of a slave mother by a white father. When he fled from Maryland to the North after the wife of his master had secretly taught him to read and write, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass, became famed as an Abolition orator and editor. As his fame grew, Northern friends who feared he would be returned to Maryland under the Fugitive Slave Law sent...
...greatest industrial enterprise in U. S. history up to that time (Northern Pacific), to fail with the greatest crash then on record. A blue-eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since his marriage in 1844 was happy, his prudent investments in railroads and Western lands profitable, his early career was so unexciting that it appears in his biography as little more than a record...
...Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...
...Black Reconstruction, Negro-freeing Lincoln is overshadowed by Negro-loving Thaddeus Stevens. Grant stands out as less impressive than an ex-slave abolitionist named Douglass, and a crowd of strangers shoulders familiar figures from the scene. If the book has a personal hero, it is Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who talked much of the Negro in the Senate but refused to hobnob socially with him outside. Yet if readers remain immersed in Du Bois's murky history until their eyes have grown accustomed to its gloom, if they are willing to feel their way cautiously through a tangled thicket...
...story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that...