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Free hearts and free homes : gender and American antislavery politics / Michael D. Pierson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierson, Michael D.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender & American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Political parties--United States--History--19th century.
- Political parties.
- Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century.
- Women abolitionists.
- Sex role--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Women--Political activity--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Political culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Political culture.
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, antislavery parties celebrated the social practices of modernizing northern families. In an era of social transformations, they attacked their Democratic foes as defenders of an older, less egalitarian patriarchal world. In ways rarely before seen in A
- Contents:
- Liberty party gender ideologies
- From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation
- Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism
- Democrats and the defense of patriarchy
- Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign
- Republican women and the 1856 election
- Republican gender ideology in 1860.
- Notes:
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York, Binghampton.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890876621
- 9780807862667
- 0807862665
- OCLC:
- 476237302
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