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.
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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.