Table of Contents: Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854

Main Author:	Earle, Jonathan Halperin.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Subjects:	Antislavery movements > History > 19th century. > United States Slavery > Political aspects > 19th century. > United States > History Politicians > United States Political activists > United States United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861. United States > Race relations
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10116516

Table of Contents:

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.