{"id":4423,"date":"2023-04-29T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2023-06-18T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T16:09:04","slug":"seward-william-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/seward-william-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Seward, William Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Henry Seward<\/strong> (1801-1872) was an antislavery politician who served as New York governor (1838-42), US senator from New York (1849-61),\u00a0 and US secretary of state (1861-69).<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/state-laws-and-freedom-seeking-baker\/\">Baker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-politics-of-fugitive-slaves-oakes\/\">Oakes<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Sinha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/antislavery-politician\/\">Antislavery Politician<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2984\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/William-Seward.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2984\" class=\"wp-image-2984 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/William-Seward.jpeg\" alt=\"profile engraving man with collar\" width=\"485\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/William-Seward.jpeg 485w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/William-Seward-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Seward, c. 1845 (<a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/15139\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was an antislavery politician who served as New York governor (1838-42), US senator from New York (1849-61),\u00a0 and US secretary of state (1861-69). ESSAYS:\u00a0Baker \/\/ Oakes \/\/ Sinha ROLES: Antislavery Politician &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antislavery-politician"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}