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050 00 $aE449$b.B766 2016
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100 1 $aBrooks, Corey M.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLiberty power :$bantislavery third parties and the transformation of American politics /$cCorey M. Brooks.
264 1 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c[2016]
264 4 $c℗♭2016
300 $a302 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aAmerican beginnings, 1500-1900
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aAbraham 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 underappreciated 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 Cory M. Brooks explains, abolitionist trail-blazers 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. Identifying the Whigs and Democrats as the mainstays of the southern Slave Power's national supremacy, savvy abolitionists insisted that only a party independent of slaveholder influence could wrest the federal government from its grip. A series of shrewd electoral, lobbying, and legislative tactics enabled these antislavery third parties to wield influence far beyond their numbers. In the process, these parties transformed the national political debate and laid the groundwork for the success of the Republican Party and the end of American slavery. -- Provided by the publisher.
610 20 $aLiberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
610 20 $aFree Soil Party (U.S.)
610 20 $aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aThird parties (United States politics)$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCauses.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1845-1861.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
830 0 $aAmerican beginnings, 1500-1900.
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