Table of Contents

The Idea of Free Labor in Nineteenth-Century America
Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Bibliography
Introduction
1. Free Labor: The Republicans and Northern Society
2. The Republican Critique of the South
3. Salmon P. Chase: The Constitution and the Slave Power
4. THe Radicals: Anti-Slavery Politics and the Moral Imperative
5. The Democratic Republicans
6. Conservatives and Moderates
7. The Republicans and Nativism
8. The Republicans and Race
9. Slavery and the Republican Ideology
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Eric Foner is Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Tom Paine and Revolutionary America and Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War.

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