Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

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.

• The Idea of Free Labor in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAbbreviations Used in Footnotes and BibliographyIntroduction1. Free Labor: The Republicans and Northern Society2. The Republican Critique of the South3. Salmon P. Chase: The Constitution and the Slave Power4. THe Radicals: Anti-Slavery Politics and the Moral Imperative5. The Democratic Republicans6. Conservatives and Moderates7. The Republicans and Nativism8. The Republicans and Race9. Slavery and the Republican IdeologyBibliographyIndex

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