Free Soilers: Third Party Politics, 1848-54 [Hardcover]

Frederick J. Blue (Author)

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• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press (March 26, 1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 025200308X
• ISBN-13: 978-0252003080
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,188,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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If you want learn about the anti-slavery Free Soil Party this is where you go. With precious little written on the subject, it is clearly the definitive work. Well researched, nicely written, it contains a wealth of information. When you're done with this book you will have a rather full understanding the place of the Free Soil party in U.S. history: how the abolitionist Liberty Party led to Free Soil and then in turn to the Republican Party, Lincoln and civil war. This is an impressive piece of scholarship and an outstanding read to boot.