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The people's martyr : Thomas Wilson Dorr and his 1842 Rhode Island rebellion /

"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 refo...

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Main Author: Chaput, Erik J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Subjects and Genres:
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, > 1805-1854.
1775-1899
Dorr Rebellion, 1842.
Suffrage > Rhode Island > History > 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Politics and government
Suffrage.
Rhode Island > Politics and government > 1775-1865.
Rhode Island.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. Jacksonian Dissident
  • 3. The Abolitionists and the People's Constitution
  • 4. Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must
  • 5. The Arsenal
  • 7. Grist for the Political Mill
  • 8. The People's Sovereignty in the Courtroom
  • 9. The Legacy of the People's Sovereignty
  • Coda.

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