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Overview. In February 1860, abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay spoke in Hartford, Connecticut. As five textile clerks led a torch-lit march through town after the speech, they successfully fought off an attack by Democratic Party members.
3 days ago · Their goal: defend free speech in America. What started as a small group of young men demonstrating during the 1860 election, snowballed into a mass movement of working-class Americans marching to end slavery. They called themselves the Wide Awakes. And they are widely seen as the political force that helped elect Abraham Lincoln and spur the ...
The Wide Awakes were a Republican political organization that was dedicated to electing Abraham Lincoln to the White House. What distinguished them from the other political clubs of the 19th century were several things: their youth, their effectiveness, and their uniforms (Grinspan, 2009).
The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation. When Abraham Lincoln campaigned in Hartford, Connecticut, in...
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4 days ago · The presence of a few hundred African American Wide Awakes in Boston morphed into claims in Mississippi that “the Wide Awakes are composed mainly of Negroes,” who were plotting a race war.
Oct 8, 2020 · Formed after a Republican meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March, the Wide Awakes were a group of young men who initially formed to escort Republican speakers to speaking venues. They quickly organized into one of the most unusual clubs in US political history.
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Sep 26, 2024 · The Wide Awakes were a series of clubs of mostly young men in their teens and early twenties, who organized parades throughout Northern towns and cities in support of anti-slavery candidates such...
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