Jacksonian antislavery & the politics of free soil, 1824-1854

In: HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law

Abstract

Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation or even as an essentially proslavery ideology.