When was free labor ideology

His analysis of the reasons for and the strength of northern animosity toward the South makes very logical the South's decision to secede once the Republicans captured the presidency in One can only suggest here the richness and subtleties of Republican ideology which Foner reconstructs so perceptively. He traces how radicals , Democrats, and Whigs entered the Republican party, outlines the contributions of each group to Republican thinking, and delineates with precision the ideological differences among the groups.

He is particularly good on the Democrats who brought a bitter antisouthernism to Republican thinking and the radicals who stressed the moral issue and who viewed Republican success not as an end but as a means to destroy slavery by divorcing the federal government from any support of it and by building an antislavery Republican party in the South. Because moderates leaned toward the radical position in the 's, antislavery was central to Republicanism, but that sentiment, he correctly insists, was broader than moral outrage, racist hostility to the spread of Negroes, CIVIL WAR HISTORY jealousy of southern political power, or any other single theme which other historians have found at the core of Republicanism.

It was all these and more. They firmly believed that the North contained such a society but that equal access to opportunity for mobility depended on continued economic growth and the unobstructed expansion of that society westward.

Republicans viewed southern society based on slavery as the antithesis of everything they valued. John C. Fremont, Republican presidential candidate, is pictured at the top.

Under the banner of free labor, northerners of diverse backgrounds and interests rallied in defense of the superiority of their own society. Feb 6, Why Originalism? James R. Aug 22, Silent Originalism and the Reweighting of Precedent. John O. May 13, James Bond, Christian Knight. Graham McAleer. A New Era of Stagflation? Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Find at OUP. Read More. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Subscriber sign in You could not be signed in, please check and try again.

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