Crusade against slavery : Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom /

Crusade against slavery : Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce G. Carveth.

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Edward Coles was a wealthy heir to a central Virginia plantation, an ardent emancipator, the second governor of Illinois, the loyal personal secretary to President James Madison, and a close antislavery associate of Thomas Jefferson. Yet never before has a full-length book detailed his remarkable li...

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Main Author: Leichtle, Kurt E., 1949-
Other Authors: Carveth, Bruce G., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2011.
Series:Studies in writing & rhetoric.
Subjects:
Coles, Edward, > 1786-1868.
Governors > Illinois > Biography.
Slavery > Illinois > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Illinois > History.
Freed persons > Illinois > Biography.
African Americans > Illinois > Biography.
African Americans.
Freed persons.
Governors.
Politics and government
Race relations.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Illinois > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Illinois > Politics and government > To 1865.
Illinois.
Biographies.
History.

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Call Number: F545.C695 L44 2011eb
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