Nativism and Slavery

The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s

By: Tyler G. Anbinder

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Paperback | 1 August 1992

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Politicians have used immigrants as scapegoats for the nation's problems throughout American history. No group achieved more success with this tactic than the Know Nothing Party, which directed its attacks primarily against Catholic immigrants. Within a year of its appearance in 1854, the party had elected eight governors, over one hundred members of Congress, and thousands of local officials. Prominent politicians of every persuasion joined the organization, which eventually became known as the American Party. Many observers predicted that the party would elect the next President. The Know Nothings experienced a precipitous decline, however, and in the 1856 election their presidential candidate, Millard Fillmore, carried only one state. The Know Nothings have not attracted much interest from historians, because the events involved in the coming of the Civil War eclipsed interest in a movement that was apparently only peripherally involved with Civil War issues. In this
important new book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings's phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Nativism and Slavery presents the first comprehensive history of the Know Nothings as well as a major revision of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.

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"The main thrust of Nativism and Slavery, and what makes it both interesting and valuable, is the very powerful and convincing argument put forward by the author, and buttressed by numerous statistical tables, charts and maps, that the unparalleled success of the Know Nothings in the mid-1850s occurred because Northerners chose to express their intense antislavery sentiments through this party."--New York Times Book Review "Perceptive....Tyler Anbinder has solved the mystery of how the antislavery tail could wag the nativist dog....This fine book steers the study of antebellum politics back on course from the diversion of ethnocultural historians."--The New Republic "An important and provocative book."--CHOICE

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Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Immigration, Nativism, and Party Crisis	p. 3
The Rise of the Know Nothings	p. 20
The Know Nothings Enter Politics	p. 52
The Know Nothings and the Collapse of the Second Party System	p. 75
"Americans Must Rule America": The Ideology of the Know Nothing Party	p. 103
The Know Nothings in Office	p. 127
"Our Order Must Be Nationalized": Slavery Divides the Know Nothing Party	p. 162
"Slavery Is at the Bottom of All Our Troubles": The Decline of the Know Nothing Party	p. 194
The Know Nothings and the Presidential Election of 1856	p. 220
The Know Nothings and Republican Ascendancy, 1857-1860	p. 246
Appendix	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 287
Index	p. 311
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