Building an Antislavery House:

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" Building an Antislavery House: "
Brooks, Corey Michael Einhorn, Robin L

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	913756
Doc. No	:	TL1b385471
Main Entry	:	Brooks, Corey Michael
Title & Author	:	Building an Antislavery House:\ Brooks, Corey MichaelEinhorn, Robin L
College	:	UC Berkeley
Date	:	2010
student score	:	2010
Abstract	:	This dissertation reintegrates abolitionism into the main currents of U.S. political history. Because of a bifurcation between studies of the American antislavery movement and political histories of the sectional conflict, modern scholars have drastically underestimated the significance of abolitionist political activism. Historians often characterize political abolitionists as naïve idealists or separatist moral purists, but I recast them as practical, effective politicians, who capitalized on rare openings in American political institutions to achieve outsized influence in the face of a robust two-party system. Third-party abolitionists shaped national debate far beyond their numbers and played central roles in the emergence of the Republican Party.
Added Entry	:	Einhorn, Robin L
Added Entry	:	UC Berkeley