Free labor: the Republicans and northern society -- The Republican critique of the South -- Salmon P. Chase: the Constitution and the slave power -- The radicals: anti-slavery politics and the moral imperative -- The Democratic Republicans -- Conservatives and moderates -- The Republicans and nativism -- The Republicans and race -- Slavery and the Republican ideology
Analysis
Politics History, 1845-1861
United States
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index