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By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.

From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, antislavery parties celebrated the social practices of modernizing northern families. In an era of social transformations, they attacked their Democratic f...

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Social Sciences History Current Affairs & Politics African Americans Gender Studies United States History Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous African American History World History Women's Studies Politics & Government - General & Miscellaneous United States Politics & Government Political Activism & Participation Sex Role 19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous African American History Women's History United States History - General & Miscellaneous 19th Century United States History - Civil War U.S. Politics - History U.S. Elections Sex Role - United States Sex Role & Politics 19th Century American History - General and Miscellaneous Slavery - Social Sciences Slavery & Abolitionism - African American History Women's History - 19th Century Women's History - U.S. - General & Miscellaneous Political Sociology Slavery - Emancipation, Abolition & African American Civil War Participation 19th Century American History - Politics & Government - General & Miscellaneous U.S. Politics & Government - 1812 - 1860 Political Protest & Dissent Political Parties - United States

Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics

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