Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-524) and index.
Contents:
The great zoological chain : the intelligentsia look at the Black man -- Early Free Soilers and the Black presence -- Free Soilism in the West -- From Free Soilers to the Republicans -- Early Republicans and the Black presence -- The popularization of Republican racialism, 1854-1861 -- The impending crisis and how to meet it -- Republicans, Blacks and the Civil War.
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