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“Like so much else about the Wide Awakes, Sperry’s cheer feels at once cryptic and comprehensible today. Composed of nonsense words, it made no explicit political arguments, endorsed no candidates, and articulated no statement of what the Wide Awakes wanted.”
― Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
― Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
“this context, White supremacy could be antislavery, because expanding slavery threatened to expand Blackness.”
― Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
― Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
“Given their roles in finance, textiles, technology, and whaling, their populist politics, and the fact that more than a few of them later ended up in prison, they were almost perfect embodiments of southern stereotypes of busy, “go-ahead,” plotting Yankees.”
― Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
― Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
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