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Jonathan H. Earle's book traces the ideological contributions of radical Jacksonians to the political movement against slavery in the antebellum United States. After starting with a chapter on the origins of free soil ideas in the 1830s, Earle details the emergence in the 1840s of Democratic Party antislavery thought in a series of chapters focused on, successively, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The book closes with a chapter on the 1848 election, and another covering the years between 1848 and the start of the Republican Party in 1854. Earle's study argues two interrelated but distinct ideas. First, he writes that radical northern Democrats in the 1830s fashioned ideas that later became indispensable parts of Republican Party ideology. Second, this book enters into a larger historiographic discussion of the Jacksonians. While recognizing that Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s interpretation needs revision, Earle argues that antislavery activism in the party of Andrew Jackson forces a reassessment of the current tendency to make “white supremacy and proslavery the underpinnings of Jacksonian political thought” (p. 5).
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