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Liberty power : antislavery third parties and the transformation of American politics /
Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage - but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most trans...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | American beginnings, 1500-1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Political Abolition and the Slave Power Argument, 1835-1840
- Interlude One. "Bowing Down to the Slave Power": Northern Whigs, Slavery, and the Speakership, 1839
- Chapter Two. Agitating the Congress: Abolitionist Lobbying and Antislavery Alliances, 1836-1844
- Interlude Two. "A Temporary 'Third Party'": Antislavery Whig Dissidents in the 1841 Speakership Contest
- Chapter Three. Building Third-Party Electoral Power, 1841-1846
- Chapter Four. Antislavery Upheaval in the Capitol: The Wilmot Proviso Debates and the Widening Sectional Divide, 1846-1848
- Interlude Three. "Let the Lines Be Drawn": Conscience Whig Insurgency and the 1847 Speakership Election
- Chapter Five. Liberty Men and the Creation of an Anti-Slave Power Coalition, 1846-1849
- Interlude Four. "Glorious Confusion in the Ranks": The Free Soil Balance of Power, 1849
- Chapter Six. Free Soil Politics and the Twilight of the Second Party System, 1849-1853
- Chapter Seven. The Nebraska Outrage and the Advent of the Republican Party, 1853-1855
- Interlude Five. "A New Era in Our History": The Longest Speakership Contest in American History and the First Republican National Victory, 1855-1856
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.