The lost president: A.D. Smith and the hidden history of radical democracy in Civil War America

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION In Search of a Man Named Smith -- CHAPTER 1 New York, Vermont, Ohio: The President of Canada -- CHAPTER 2 Wisconsin: When I Think of Him I Incline to Spit -- CHAPTER 3 South Carolina: Your Name and Memory Will Be Cherished -- CONCLUSION Act, One and All -- EPILOGUE Lost and Found -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

"Smith followed a journey to restore republican values and justice: first as the man who wanted to be the President of Canada in the late 1830s, next as the judge who touched off a legal firestorm by declaring the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional in the 1850s, and finally as the tax commissioner who demanded that former slaves have an opportunity to preempt land in South Carolina during the Civil War."