Radical Abolitionist Party

Direct efforts were made to re-establish the slave trade between Africa and the Southern states.

In 1839 the Abolition Party was formed, which advocated the total abolition of slavery.

This was going too far for the mass of the North, who hoped to live at peace with the South.

But still there were many in both the Whig and Democratic parties who wished to see the advance of the slave power checked, and their delegates, meeting at Buffalo in June 1848, formed the Free Soil Party, opposed to the further extension of slavery, which rapidly grew in power.