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Jacksonian antislavery & the politics of free soil, 1824-1854 /

Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Earle, Jonathan Halperin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Colección:Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
UNC Press law publications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Jacksonian antislavery and the roots of free soil
  • Dissident Democrats in the 1830s : William Leggett, George Henry Evans, and Thomas Morris
  • Set down your feet, Democrats : politics and free soil in New York
  • Making hay from Democratic clover : John P. Hale and the New Hampshire independent democracy
  • Marcus Morton and the dilemma of Jacksonian antislavery in Massachusetts
  • David Wilmot, the proviso, and the congressional movement to abolish slavery
  • The Cincinnati clique, true democracy, and the Ohio origins of the Free Soil Party
  • Free soil, free labor, free speech, and free men : the election of 1848
  • Free soilers, Republicans, and the third party system, 1848-1854.