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05439aam a2200613 i 4500 001 532177DCC38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 170719t20172017mdua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2017008835 020 $a 142142388X 020 $a 9781421423883 020 $a 1421423871 020 $a 9781421423876 035 $a (OCoLC)983561981 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E377 $b .H75 2017 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a HIS036080 $a SOC054000 $a HIS036080 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hoffer, Peter Charles, $d 1944- $e author. 245 10 $a John Quincy Adams and the gag rule, 1835-1850 / $c Peter Charles Hoffer. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 109 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Witness to history 520 $a "Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against slavery, effectively forbidding Congress from addressing the antislavery issue until it was rescinded in late 1844. In the Senate, a similar rule lasted until 1850. Strongly supported by all southern and some northern Democratic congressmen, the gag rule became a proxy defense of slavery's morality and economic value in the face of growing pro-abolition sentiment. In John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, Peter Charles Hoffer transports readers to Washington, DC, in the period before the Civil War to contextualize the heated debates surrounding the rule. At first, Hoffer explains, only a few members of Congress objected to the rule. These antislavery representatives argued strongly for the reception and reading of incoming abolitionist petitions. When they encountered an almost uniformly hostile audience, however, John Quincy Adams took a different tack. He saw the effort to gag the petitioners as a violation of their constitutional rights. Adams's campaign to lift the gag rule, joined each year by more and more northern members of Congress, revealed how the slavery issue promoted a virulent sectionalism and ultimately played a part in southern secession and the Civil War. A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "The newest entry in the Witness to History series introduces students to the gag-rule (1836), which tabled any petitions or discussions of slavery, effectively forbidding Congress to address the issue. It took John Quincy Adams four Congresses and a lot of passionate arguing to finally get enough votes to repeal the gag-rule in 1844. Students often think of the first half of the 19th century as a boring gap between the Revolution and the Civil War. Peter Hoffer's new book vividly shows the relevance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age. The subject of the present book, the gag-rule debates in Congress, returns us to Washington D.C. in the period before the Civil War. Then, the capital was still a southern city, with slaves on the streets and slave auctions in public places. A member of Congress could not make his way from his boarding house or hotel to the Capitol without seeing reminders that half the nation was slave country. The issues in the congressional debates over the reception of anti-slavery petitions in the Antebellum Era may seem transparent, but the language the participants used had deeper connotations than a casual reading reveals. The purpose of this volume is to place those debates in the context of a nation divided by the slavery issue"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Adams, John Quincy, $d 1767-1848. 610 10 $a United States. $b Congress $x History $x History $y 19th century. 600 17 $a Adams, John Quincy, $d 1767-1848. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00046795 610 17 $a United States. $b Congress. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00529490 611 27 $a American Civil War (1861-1865) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351658 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Freedom of speech $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Causes. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Causes. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1815-1861. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Antislavery movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810800 650 7 $a Freedom of speech. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934044 650 7 $a Parliamentary practice. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01053793 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a War $x Causes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170331 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018022141.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107014714.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=532177DCC38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search