Free soil, free labor, free men : the ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War / Eric Foner.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > 1849-1861.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Physical Description:xliv, 353 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
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 ideology.