Jacksonian antislavery & the politics of free soil, 1824-1854
By: Jonathan H. Earle
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Free Soil Party (U.S.); Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Politicians -- United States -- Biography; Political activists -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index
Table of contents: title: Jacksonian antislavery and the roots of free soil; title: Dissident Democrats in the 1830s : William Leggett, George Henry Evans, and Thomas Morris; title: Set down your feet, Democrats : politics and free soil in New York; title: Making hay from Democratic clover : John P. Hale and the New Hampshire independent democracy; title: Marcus Morton and the dilemma of Jacksonian antislavery in Massachusetts; title: David Wilmot, the proviso, and the congressional movement to abolish slavery; title: The Cincinnati clique, true democracy, and the Ohio origins of the Free Soil Party; title: Free soil, free labor, free speech, and free men : the election of 1848; title: Free soilers, Republicans, and the third party system, 1848-1854