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Free hearts and free homes : gender and American antislavery politics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierson, Michael D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1849-1861.
Political parties > United States > History > 19th century.
Women abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Women > Political activity > United States > History > 19th century.
Political culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Liberty party gender ideologies
  • From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation
  • Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism
  • Democrats and the defense of patriarchy
  • Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign
  • Republican women and the 1856 election
  • Republican gender ideology in 1860.