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Ballots For Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860

Richard H. Sewell

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Description:At first a voice in the wilderness, then the rallying cry of a new morality, abolitionism became the springboard to power of a major national party. Ballots for Freedom recapitulates the political war against slavery, from the first debates over the creation of an abolitionist third party to the election of Abraham Lincoln on an essentially antislavery Republican platform.Sewell skillfully characterizes the many political, moral, and ideological forces that at times drove together and at others tore into fragments the abolitionist movement. He deals with the pragmatic aspects of third party politics and organization and with the question of racism, making clear that, to a surprising extent—given the racism of the age and the demands of majoritarian politics—antislavery politicians continued throughout the 1840s and 1850s to defend the basic civil rights of black Americans.Originally the crusade of an esoteric northern faction, political abolitionism spread to an ever larger constituency in response to mounting fears of a "Slave Power conspiracy." As the political assault on slavery expanded, the tenets of political abolitionism inevitably lost some of their radical edge. Yet, as Sewell convincingly demonstrates, historians have often exaggerated the watering-down of moral principle by Free Soilers and Republicans and have overlooked striking continuities in the means and ends of antislavery politics.Sewell shows how the Liberty party, the first political arm of the abolitionists, eventually merged with the Free Soil party o 1848, with former President Martin Van Buren as its candidate, and how both parties finally contributed to the formation of the Republican party in 1854. With Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, antislavery politics became national policy.Concentrating on the interplay between ideas, tactics, and the rush of events, Sewell traces the spread of antislavery doctrines with a fine sense of the interaction of plain party politics and the developing receptivity of the nation toward an idea whose time was about to come. A thorough and impartial history of a movement currently under reexamination, as well as a lively narrative of troubled times, Ballots for Freedom shows more clearly than ever before how a once unthinkable war became all but inevitable.(Description from publisher.)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ballots For Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860. To get started finding Ballots For Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: At first a voice in the wilderness, then the rallying cry of a new morality, abolitionism became the springboard to power of a major national party. Ballots for Freedom recapitulates the political war against slavery, from the first debates over the creation of an abolitionist third party to the election of Abraham Lincoln on an essentially antislavery Republican platform.Sewell skillfully characterizes the many political, moral, and ideological forces that at times drove together and at others tore into fragments the abolitionist movement. He deals with the pragmatic aspects of third party politics and organization and with the question of racism, making clear that, to a surprising extent—given the racism of the age and the demands of majoritarian politics—antislavery politicians continued throughout the 1840s and 1850s to defend the basic civil rights of black Americans.Originally the crusade of an esoteric northern faction, political abolitionism spread to an ever larger constituency in response to mounting fears of a "Slave Power conspiracy." As the political assault on slavery expanded, the tenets of political abolitionism inevitably lost some of their radical edge. Yet, as Sewell convincingly demonstrates, historians have often exaggerated the watering-down of moral principle by Free Soilers and Republicans and have overlooked striking continuities in the means and ends of antislavery politics.Sewell shows how the Liberty party, the first political arm of the abolitionists, eventually merged with the Free Soil party o 1848, with former President Martin Van Buren as its candidate, and how both parties finally contributed to the formation of the Republican party in 1854. With Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, antislavery politics became national policy.Concentrating on the interplay between ideas, tactics, and the rush of events, Sewell traces the spread of antislavery doctrines with a fine sense of the interaction of plain party politics and the developing receptivity of the nation toward an idea whose time was about to come. A thorough and impartial history of a movement currently under reexamination, as well as a lively narrative of troubled times, Ballots for Freedom shows more clearly than ever before how a once unthinkable war became all but inevitable.(Description from publisher.)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ballots For Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860. To get started finding Ballots For Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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