{"product_id":"free-hearts-and-free-homes-michael-d-pierson-9780807854556","title":"Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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 foes as defenders of an older, less egalitarian patriarchal world. In ways rarely before seen in American politics, Pierson says, antebellum voters could choose between parties that articulated different visions of proper family life and gender roles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy exploring the ways John and Jessie Benton Fremont and Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln were presented to voters as prospective First Families, and by examining the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, and other antislavery women, \u003ci\u003eFree Hearts and Free Homes\u003c\/i\u003e rediscovers how crucial gender ideologies were to American politics on the eve of the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael D. Pierson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807854557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807854556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 7.04w x 0.69d","brand":"Michael D. Pierson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46401254686975,"sku":"9780807854556","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_80890f87-b411-430e-beff-7c41f48fec04.jpg?v=1733887181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/free-hearts-and-free-homes-michael-d-pierson-9780807854556","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}