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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452259503321
• Autore: Earle Jonathan Halperin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-8078-7577-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.2732
• Soggetti: Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century; Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century; Politicians - United States; Political activists - United States; Electronic books.; United States Politics and government 1815-1861; United States Race relations Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.