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.
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"First-rate in every respect...[A] work of genuine distinction, and a major contribution to ante-bellum political history."--Kenneth Stampp, author of The Imperiled Union"Still the best book on the politics of the 1850's."--Norman B. Ferris, Middle Tennessee State University"It's the best book on Republican ideology there is. Foner is among the very best Americanists ever. Bravo!"--Harlow Sheidley, University of Colorado"Foner's work remains the classic treatment of the subject!'--K.M. Startip, Williams Baptist College"Excellent volume--Foner is always good anyway!"--John F. McCormack, Delaware County Community College
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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
