03177nam 2200637Ia 450 991045225950332120200520144314.00-8078-7577-5(CKB)1000000000456639(EBL)413263(OCoLC)476236571(SSID)ssj0000184819(PQKBManifestationID)11168046(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184819(PQKBWorkID)10207579(PQKB)10771734(MiAaPQ)EBC413263(Au-PeEL)EBL413263(CaPaEBR)ebr10116516(CaONFJC)MIL930073(EXLCZ)99100000000045663920040402d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrJacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854[electronic resource] /by Jonathan H. EarleChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5555-3 0-8078-2888-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index.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.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.Antislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPoliticiansUnited StatesBiographyPolitical activistsUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesPolitics and government1815-1861United StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsElectronic books.Antislavery movementsHistorySlaveryPolitical aspectsHistoryPoliticiansPolitical activists324.2732Earle Jonathan Halperin994297MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452259503321Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-18542277091UNINA