Author: Foner, Eric

Free soil, free labor, free men : the ideology of the republican party before the civil war
Date1980
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherOxford University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfStacks [ASCC]
Call NumberE436.F6 1980
Descriptionxii, 353 pages ; 24 cm.
Note

Free soil, free labor, free men : the ideology of the republican party before the civil war / Foner, Eric.

Contents:

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 idealogy
 
A Revision of the author's thesis, Columbia University. First published in 1970.
SubjectUnited States--History
ISBN9780195013528 ; 0195013522
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