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Early Civics Schoolbook Features Abolitionists

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Charles Nordhoff (18301901) produced a nineteenth-century civics textbook entitled, Politics for Young Americans (Harper & Brothers, 1875) that included a revealing description of abolitionists in a section about the proper roles of minorities and majorities in American political culture (“Of … Continue reading

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