The Liberty Party, 18401848: Antislavery Thirdparty Politics In The United States (Antislavery, Abolition, And The Atlantic Wo,Used

The Liberty Party, 18401848: Antislavery Thirdparty Politics In The United States (Antislavery, Abolition, And The Atlantic Wo,Used

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In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, the party had grown to challenge the two mainstream political factions in many areas. In The Liberty Party, 18401848, Reinhard O. Johnson provides the first comprehensive history of this shortlived but important third party, detailing how it helped to bring the antislavery movement to the forefront of American politics and became the central institutional vehicle in the fight against slavery.As the major instrument of antislavery sentiment, the Liberty organization was more than a political party and included not only eligible voters but also disfranchised African Americans and women. Most party members held evangelical beliefs, and as Johnson relates, an intense religiosity permeated most of the groups activities. He discusses the partys founding and its national growth through the presidential election of 1844; its struggles to define itself amid serious internal disagreements over philosophy, strategy, and tactics in the ensuing years; and the reasons behind its decline and merger into the Free Soil coalition in 1848.Informative appendices include statewide results for all presidential and gubernatorial elections between 1840 and 1848, the Liberty Partys 1844 platform, and short biographies of every Liberty member mentioned in the main text. Epic in scope and encyclopedic in detail, The Liberty Party, 18401848 is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in nineteenthcentury American politics.

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