Free soil, free labor, free men : the ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern Americanhistorians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. modern American historical writing
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xliv, 353 pages ; 21 cm
9780195094978, 9780195013528, 9780195099812, 9780844668499, 0195094972, 0195013522, 0195099818, 0844668494
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The idea of free labor in nineteenth-century America
Abbreviations used in footnotes and bibliography
Introduction
Free labor : the Republicans and northern society
The Republican critique of the South
Salmon P. Chase : the Constitution and the slave power
The radicals : anti-slavery politics and the moral imperative
The Democratic Republicans
Conservatives and moderates
The Republicans and nativism
The Republicans and race
Slavery and the Republican ideology