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Jacksonian antislavery & the politics of free soil, 1824-1854 / Jonathan H. Earle.

Author/creator Earle, Jonathan Halperin
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Variant title Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index.
LCCN 2004007423
ISBN0807828882 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807855553 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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