Abolitionism as a political and social reform movement resulted in massive structural changes in American politics and economics.
Thomas G. Mitchell is the author of Indian Fighters Turned American Politicians: From Military Service to Public Office (Greenwood, 2003), Liberal Parties in Settler Conflicts (Greenwood, 2002), Native vs. Settler: Ethnic Conflict in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa (Greenwood, 2000).
This history of the abolitionist movement in the United States
focuses on the successes and failures of the movement within the
electoral arena and, upon the electoral success of the Republican
Party and the outbreak of the Civil War, within the political arena
of government. It thus looks at the failures of the Liberty Party
and the Free Soil Party/Free Democrats to achieve successes as
third parties due to the nature of the American political system,
party strategies, and political exigencies and the contrasting
success of the more internally coherent Republicans to become a
replacement second party for the Whigs, partly due to an atmosphere
where Northerners felt more threatened by the Slave Power than in
prior times and partly because they had a broader range of issues
with which to attract supporters.
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