Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003 - History - 250 pages
By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.

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Contents

Liberty Party Gender Ideologies
25
Gender and Emancipation
47
Antislavery Women and the Triumph of Domestic Feminism
71
Free Love and womens rights advocates
117
James Buchanan shown as willing to change his political clothes
123
Republican Gender Ideology in 1860
165
Similar depictions of Mary Todd Lincoln and Mrs D
167
Bibliography
223
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MICHAEL D. PIERSON is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is author of Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics (from the University of North Carolina Press).

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