The Amesbury-Salisbury strike and the social origins of political nativism in antebellum Massachusetts.
From: Journal of Social History
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Date: 3/22/1996
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Author: Voss-Hubbard, Mark
This study explores several issues under debate in the social and political history of the antebellum North. Within the compass of two Massachusetts communities, it finds that traditional explanations of political nativism in the 1850s are incomplete. In Amesbury and Salisbury, the familiar themes of politics in the 1850s - nativism, antislavery, antiparty populism - were political translations of anxieties over industrial and social change. Prior to midcentury, social experience in these towns ...
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