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Preludes to the Civil War: William Henry Seward
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William Henry
Seward was born and grew up in the
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village of
Florida, NY. He was an ardent
abolitionist.
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He went on to be
Lincoln’s Secretary of State, and
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also engineered
the purchase of Alaska. “Seward
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Day” is celebrated in that
state every year.
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Selection from “On the Dangers of Extending Slavery”
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speech by W. H. Seward, delivered Oct. 12, 1855 at
Albany
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Seward c. 1846, when he defended a
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black man who had murdered a white
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family on the basis of insanity, one of
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the first uses of this defense.
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Preludes to
Civil War; Accomplishements of individuals
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