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The Lost President - A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America (Paperback)
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The Lost President - A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America (Paperback)
Series: UnCivil Wars Series
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Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this
nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key
events of his times in several states, personifying the
nineteenth-century impulse to move across the American landscape.
Smith's Quixotic trail began in upstate New York, wound westward to
the Ohio and Wisconsin frontier, southward to the federally
occupied Sea Islands of South Carolina, and finally ended aboard a
northbound steamer. In Ohio, Smith became involved with a
paramilitary group, the Hunters' Lodge, which elected him the
"President of the Republic of Canada." In Wisconsin he achieved
notoriety as the judge who dared to declare the Fugitive Slave Act
of 1850 unconstitutional, lighting one of many fuses that sparked
the Civil War. In South Carolina he fought passionately for the
property rights of freedmen. Smith believed in civic movements
based on Jeffersonian democracy and republican ideals. Civic
participation, he believed, was a fundamental part of being a good
American. This civic impulse resulted in his enthusiastic embrace
of the reform movements of the day and his absolute dedication to
radicalism. A detective story set against the backdrop of the
volatile antebellum era, this gripping biography lays bare, in
funny, accessible prose, just what it is that historians really do
all day and how obsessive they can be-assembling a jigsaw puzzle of
secret documents, probate records, court testimony, speeches,
correspondence, newspaper coverage, and genealogical research to
tell the story of a man like Smith, of his vision for the United
States, and, more generally, of the value of remembering secondary
historical characters.
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