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Liberty Power (Hardcover)
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Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on
opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory
was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery
third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist
activists built the most transformative third-party movement in
American history and effectively reshaped political structures in
the decades leading up to the Civil War. As Corey M. Brooks
explains, abolitionist trailblazers who organized first the Liberty
Party and later the more moderate Free Soil Party confronted
formidable opposition from a two-party system expressly constructed
to suppress disputes over slavery. Identifying the Whigs and
Democrats as the mainstays of the southern Slave Power's national
supremacy, savvy abolitionists insisted that only a party
independent of slaveholder influence could wrest the federal
government from its grip. A series of shrewd electoral, lobbying,
and legislative tactics enabled these antislavery third parties to
wield influence far beyond their numbers. In the process, these
parties transformed the national political debate and laid the
groundwork for the success of the Republican Party and the end of
American slavery.
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