CSPAN2 Book TV November 13, 2011
[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> peaceful abolition of slavery affecting frederick olmstead in his persuasion of england of joining the south in the civil war? >> let's see, the basis of abolitionism is greasing. he was a gradualist, another qualification of getting the times job. they wanted someone objective or sort of objective to go there, and gradualists believed slavery was wrong, but thought you couldn't impose -- one region o couldn't impose one and that also this was a complicated institution that needed time to be unwound. and so for that reason they thought because ...
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