Oligarchies, Monopolies, and the Constitution
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The Politics of Free Labor and the Slave Economy
Newt Gingrich's new book looks at the antipathy of northern whigs and jacksonians to what they call the slave system. They see as the irreconcilable conflict between a political economy and a republican, he says. And their sort of premier issue in the anendng sort of anti bellum era is what will become of the nation's western territories? Will they be given over to a slave economy, or will they be preserved as where a growing white working class can live?, he asks.
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