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Jacksonian antislavery & the politics of free soil, 1824-1854

Jonathan Halperin Earle (Author)
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation or even as an essentially proslavery ideology

eBook, English, 2004
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2004