By Reinhard O. Johnson
As the most important tool of antislavery sentiment, the freedom association used to be greater than a political social gathering and incorporated not just eligible citizens but additionally disfranchised African american citizens and girls. such a lot social gathering contributors held evangelical ideals, and as Johnson relates, an severe religiosity permeated many of the group’s actions. a minimum of 8 U.S. senators, eighteen individuals of the home of Representatives, 5 kingdom governors, and justices of the excellent courtroom have been among the Liberty celebration participants with distinctive careers within the private and non-private sectors. notwithstanding such a lot early Liberty supporters got here from the Whig get together, increasingly more former Democrats joined the occasion because it matured.
Johnson discusses the freedom Party’s founding and its nationwide development in the course of the presidential election of 1844; its struggles to outline itself amid severe inner disagreements over philosophy, process, and strategies within the resulting years; and the explanations in the back of its decline and merger into the loose Soil coalition in 1848. due to the fact such a lot Liberty occasion actions happened on the country point, Johnson treats the heritage of every nation social gathering in significant aspect, demonstrating how the social gathering constructed otherwise nation via country and illustrating how those variations mixed with the nationwide view of the party.
Informative appendices contain statewide effects for all presidential and gubernatorial elections among 1840 and 1848, the freedom Party’s 1844 platform, and brief biographies of each Liberty member pointed out in general textual content of the publication. Epic in scope and encyclopedic intimately, the freedom celebration, 1840–1848 will function a useful reference for a person attracted to nineteenth-century American politics.
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