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Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824–1854

By Jonathan H. Earle

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Clothbound, $59.95; paperbound, $22.50.)

In Jacksonian Antislavery, Jonathan Earle seeks to explain the presence and influence of Democrats in the Republican coalition of the 1850s. With historians generally portraying northern Democrats as tools of the southern slave power, Earle correctly contends that these scholars mistakenly ignore that party's significant Free Soil wing. While acknowledging that Jacksonian Democrats were minority partners in the Republican Party, he concludes that the party of Lincoln "owed a substantial debt" to Free Soil Democrats (p. 16).

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