{"product_id":"the-root-and-the-branch-working-class-reform-and-antislavery-1790-1860-hardback-9781512825923","title":"The Root and the Branch; Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860 (Hardback) 9781512825923","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Root and the Branch\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWorking-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSean Griffin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512825923\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Exceedingly well researched in an impressively wide range of source materials, \u003ci\u003eThe Root and Branch \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together histories of American antislavery and of nineteenth-century labor reform exceptionally well to show how these movements intersected more frequently and more meaningfully than is typically understood. By bringing together these movements so fully and extensively, this book offers an invaluable contribution to scholarship on both American antislavery activism and labor radicalism.\" (Corey Brooks, Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Root and the Branch \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the relationship between the early labor movement and the crusade to abolish slavery between the early national period and the Civil War. Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery movements with working-class demands for economic equality, access to the soil, and the right to the fruits of labor, Sean Griffin shows how labor reformers and radicals contributed to the antislavery project, from the development of free labor ideology to the Republican Party's adoption of working-class land reform in the Homestead Act. By pioneering an antislavery politics based on an appeal to the self-interest of ordinary voters and promoting a radical vision of \"free soil\" and \"free labor\" that challenged liberal understandings of property rights and freedom of contract, labor reformers helped to birth a mass politics of antislavery that hastened the conflict with the Slave Power, while pointing the way toward future struggles over the meaning of free labor in the post-Emancipation United States.\u003cbr\u003e Bridging the gap between the histories of abolitionism, capitalism and slavery, and the origins of the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eThe Root and the Branch \u003c\/i\u003erecovers a long-overlooked story of cooperation and coalition-building between labor reformers and abolitionists and unearths new evidence about the contributions of artisan reformers, transatlantic radicals, free Black activists, and ordinary working men and women to the development of antislavery politics. Based on painstaking archival research, \u003ci\u003eThe Root and the Branch\u003c\/i\u003e addresses timely questions surrounding the relationships between slavery, antislavery, race, labor, and capitalism in the early United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Tom Paine's Progeny: Slavery, Labor, and Democracy \u003cbr\u003e in the Radical Atlantic \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"A Very Intimate Connexion\": The Working Men's Parties, \u003cbr\u003e Equal Rights Democrats, and Antislavery Immediatism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"The Genius of Integral Emancipation\": Antislavery and Association\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"The Greatest of All Anti-Slavery Measures\": Working-Class Land \u003cbr\u003e Reform and Antislavery's Common Ground\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. A \"Union of Reformers\": The National Industrial Congress and \u003cbr\u003e the Antislavery–Land Reform Alliance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. From Free Soil to Homestead: Working-Class Land Reform \u003cbr\u003e and Antislavery Politics\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Antislavery, Labor, and the Res Publica: The Rise of the Republican Party\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681690743064,"sku":"9781512825923","price":33.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-root-and-the-branch-working-class-reform-and-antislavery-1790-1860-hardback-9781512825923","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}