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Free soil, free labor, free men : the ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War / Eric Foner ; with a new introductory essay.
- Title
- Free soil, free labor, free men : the ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War / Eric Foner ; with a new introductory essay.
- Author
- Foner, Eric.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xliv, 353 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-336) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0195099818
- 0195094972 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0195090818 (acid-free paper) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^^94019304^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library