Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854 / by Jonathan H. Earle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earle, Jonathan Halperin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Politicians--United States--Biography.

Politicians.

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

Free Soil Party (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 or even as an essentially proslavery ideology.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index.

ISBN:

9798890867759

9780807875773

0807875775

OCLC:

476236571