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.
From 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.
By exploring the ways John and Jessie Benton Framont 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, "Free Hearts and
Free Homes" rediscovers how crucial gender ideologies were to
American politics on the eve of the Civil War.
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