{"product_id":"antislavery-politics-in-antebellum-and-thomas-g-mitchell-9780275991685","title":"Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe core of the book consists of two sections: 1) the 20-year political struggle to restrict slavery through a succession of anti-extensionist parties starting in 1840 with the founding of the Liberty Party, extending through the Free Soil Party (1848-54) and ending with Abraham Lincoln being elected president as a Republican on the same basic platform as the Liberty Party in 1844. 2) The struggle by abolitionists to use the outbreak of the Civil War as a chance to rid the country of slavery using the executive wartime powers of the presidency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas G. Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0275991687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780275991685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.39h x 6.46w x 1.10d","brand":"Thomas G. Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086462136575,"sku":"9780275991685","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55a9dafb-0152-4601-a0d2-86af96b03be1.jpg?v=1769094814","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antislavery-politics-in-antebellum-and-thomas-g-mitchell-9780275991685","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}