Author:
Brooks, Corey M. author.
Imprint:Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Description302 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction -- Political abolition and the slave power argument, 1835-1840 -- Agitating the congress : abolitionist lobbying and antislavery alliances, 1836-1844 -- Building third-party electoral power, 1841-1846 -- Antislavery upheaval in the capitol : the Wilmot Proviso debates and the widening sectional divide, 1846-1848 -- Liberty men and the creation of an anti-slave power coalition, 1846-1849 -- Free soil politics and the twilight of the second party system, 1849-1853 -- The Nebraska outrage and the advent of the Republican Party, 1853-1855.
