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Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Corey M. Brooks
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Description for Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Hardcover. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most transformative third-party movement in American history and effectively reshaped political structures in the decades leading up to the Civil War. As Corey M. Brooks explains, abolitionist trailblazers who organized first the Liberty Party and later the more moderate Free Soil Party confronted formidable opposition from a two-party system expressly constructed to suppress disputes over slavery. ... Read more
Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most transformative third-party movement in American history and effectively reshaped political structures in the decades leading up to the Civil War. As Corey M. Brooks explains, abolitionist trailblazers who organized first the Liberty Party and later the more moderate Free Soil Party confronted formidable opposition from a two-party system expressly constructed to suppress disputes over slavery. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226307282
SKU
V9780226307282
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About Corey M. Brooks
Corey M. Brooks is assistant professor of history at York College of Pennsylvania. He is coeditor of Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio. He resides in Baltimore.
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