Download or read book The People s Martyr written by Erik J. Chaput and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840s Rhode Island, the state’s seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr’s failed attempt to rectify that situation through constitutional reform ultimately led to an armed insurrection that was quickly quashed—and to a stiff sentence for Dorr himself. Nevertheless, as Erik Chaput shows, the Dorr Rebellion stands as a critical moment of American history during the two decades of fractious sectional politics leading up to the Civil War. This uprising was the only revolutionary republican movement in the antebellum period that claimed the people’s sovereignty as the basis for the right to alter or abolish a form of government. Equally important, it influenced the outcomes of important elections throughout northern states in the early 1840s and foreshadowed the breakup of the national Democratic Party in 1860. Through his spellbinding and engaging narrative, Chaput sets the rebellion in the context of national affairs—especially the abolitionist movement. While Dorr supported the rights of African Americans, a majority of delegates to the “People’s Convention” favored a whites-only clause to ensure the proposed constitution’s passage, which brought abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Abby Kelley to Rhode Island to protest. Meanwhile, Dorr’s ideology of the people’s sovereignty sparked profound fears among Southern politicians regarding its potential to trigger slave insurrections. Drawing upon years of extensive archival research, Chaput’s book provides the first scholarly biography of Dorr, as well as the most detailed account of the rebellion yet published. In it, Chaput tackles issues of race and gender and carries the story forward into the 1850s to examine the transformation of Dorr’s ideology into the more familiar refrain of popular sovereignty. Chaput demonstrates how the rebellion’s real aims and significance were far broader than have been supposed, encompassing seemingly conflicting issues including popular sovereignty, antislavery, land reform, and states’ rights. The People’s Martyr is a definitive look at a key event in our history that further defined the nature of American democracy and the form of constitutionalism we now hold as inviolable.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Rhode Island in 1842 as Connected with the Dorr Rebellion written by Elisha Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rhode Island Rebellion 1842 written by Samuel Ames and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raucous Years in Rhode Island 1842 1844 written by Margaret Bingham Stillwell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dorr War written by Arthur May Mowry and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A concise history of the efforts to obtain an extension of suffrage in Rhode Island from the year 1811 to 1842 written by Jacob FRIEZE and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dorr Rebellion written by Marvin E. Gettleman and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1973 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Concise History of the Efforts to Obtain an Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island written by Jacob Frieze and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dorr War written by Rory Raven and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the bloody conflict that erupted in 1841 Rhode Island over allowing non-property owners to vote. The portly Rhode Island aristocrat was hardly the image of the people’s champion—but in 1841, Thomas Dorr became just that. At a time when only white male landowners could vote, the idealistic Dorr envisioned a more democratic state. In October of that year, the People’s Convention ratified a new constitution that extended voting rights to those without land, and Dorr was named governor. That act would spark a small civil war, and violence erupted as the people of the state stood sharply divided in a conflict that reached the president and United States Supreme Court. Author Rory Raven charts the tumultuous and ultimately tragic history of a man and a movement that were too far ahead of their time.

Download or read book To the Members of the General Assembly of Rhode Island Approximately 1842 written by John Pitman and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues against those in favor of universal (white male) suffrage in Rhode Island, denouncing the supporters of the Dorr Rebellion. Pages are uncut.

Download or read book An Important Incident in Rhode Island s History the Dorr Rebellion written by Mary Lou Hawkinson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rebellion in Rhode Island written by Anne Mary Newton and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Eventful Day in the Rhode Island Rebellion written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State of Rhode Island Providence Plantations A Proclamation by the Governor of the Same 25 June 1842 written by Thomas Wilson Dorr and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governor Dorr sent this proclamation with a letter (see GLC05757.03) to Millard, Low, & Miller, publishers of the Daily Express. Instructs the General Assembly to meet at Gloucester, Rhode Island, on 4 July 1842 instead of at Providence. Also requests that the towns and districts, in which vacancies may have occurred, by the resignation of Representatives or Senators, to proceed forth with to supply this Same by new elections, according to the provisions of the [People's] Constitution. Several edits. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.

Download or read book Report of the Trial of Thomas Wilson Dorr for Treason Against the State of Rhode Island written by Joseph Story Pitman and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dorr Rebellion and the Democratization of Rhode Island written by Emily Perks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rhode Island s Rebellion written by Russell J. DeSimone and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of essays on some aspect of Rhode Island's rebellion -- the Dorr War. Each essay examines an aspect or individual associated with the rebellion.