Salmon Chase on Slavery

Term Paper # 115990

African-American Studies > Historical Figures

An analysis of the significant influence of Salmon Chase in America.

1,146 words () | 4 sources | MLA | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper describes how Salmon Chase formed the antislavery party, and the Free Soil Party with radical views against slavery that put him at odds even with Lincoln. The paper outlines his political career and highlights how it was Chase who was really the uncompromising voice to abolish slavery in the United States.

From the Paper:

"Salmon Chase was a driving force behind the abolitionist movement, and Abraham Lincoln's spearheading of that movement in early American history. Research actually indicates that Chase himself was the driving force for the almost holy gospel of our Democracy today, the notion of Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, the slogan of the essential Free Soil Party that was the precursor to the abolitionist movement in this country. He was a Civil War politician and jurist in the Civil War with a political career as US Senator from Ohio, then as governor of Ohio, and finally as US Treasury Secretary under Lincoln, before ascending to the position of Chief Justice of the United States."

Sample of Sources Used:

The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act. 2008: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html
The Kansas-Nebraska Act. 2008: http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
Salmon P Chase: http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Chase.html
Salmon P. Chase." 2008:http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Chase.html