Sean Griffin

The Root and the Branch

Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book examines the relationship between labor reform and abolitionism in the decades before the Civil War. Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery with the nation's first labor movement, Griffin shows how labor reformers made an invaluable contribution to the antislavery project"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781512825923
• ISBN-10: 1512825921
• Artikelnr.: 68395879

Autorenporträt

Sean Griffin is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States and has taught at the City University of New York and the College of Charleston.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Tom Paine's Progeny: Slavery, Labor, and Democracy
in the Radical Atlantic
Chapter 2. "A Very Intimate Connexion": The Working Men's Parties,
Equal Rights Democrats, and Antislavery Immediatism
Chapter 3. "The Genius of Integral Emancipation": Antislavery and
Association
Chapter 4. "The Greatest of All Anti-Slavery Measures": Working-Class Land
Reform and Antislavery's Common Ground
Chapter 5. A "Union of Reformers": The National Industrial Congress and
the Antislavery-Land Reform Alliance
Chapter 6. From Free Soil to Homestead: Working-Class Land Reform
and Antislavery Politics
Chapter 7. Antislavery, Labor, and the Res Publica: The Rise of the
Republican Party
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments