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1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
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UNC Press law publications
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 30, 2021) |
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Free Soil Party (U.S.)
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Free Soil Party (U.S.) fast |
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Politicians -- United States -- Biography
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Political activists -- United States -- Biography
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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Antislavery movements
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Political activists
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Politics and government
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Politicians
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Race relations -- Political aspects
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Slavery -- Political aspects
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Abolitionisme.
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Slavernij.
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Politieke aspecten.
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Politieke partijen.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140427
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United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
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United States
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004007423 |
| ISBN |
0807875775 |
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9780807875773 |
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