Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854 [electronic resource] /
by Jonathan H. Earle.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- xii, 282 p. : ill., maps.
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.
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