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Contesting slavery the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation
Title
Contesting slavery [electronic resource] : the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation / edited by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason.
ISBN
0813931177 (e-book)
9780813931173 (e-book)
0813931053 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780813931050 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 313 p. :) map ;
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 History Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2012
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Slavery, sectionalism, and politics in the early American republic / John Craig Hammond, Matthew Mason
Necessary but not sufficient: revolutionary ideology and antislavery action in the early republic / Matthew Mason
Early free-labor thought and the contest over slavery in the early Republic / Eva Sheppard Wolf
"Manifest signs of passion": the first federal congress, antislavery, and legacies of the Revolutionary War / Robert G. Parkinson
"Good communications corrects bad manners": the Banneker-Jefferson dialogue and the project of white uplift / Richard Newman
Caribbean slave revolts and the origins of the gag rule: a contest between abolitionism and democracy, 1797-1835 / Edward B. Rugemer
Founding a slaveholders' union, 1770-1797 / George William Van Cleve
"Uncontrollable necessity": the local politics, geopolitics, and sectional politics of slavery expansion / John Craig Hammond
Positive goods and necessary evils: commerce, security, and slavery in the lower south, 1787-1837 / Brian Schoen
Slave smugglers, slave catchers, and slave rebels: slavery and American state development, 1787-1842 / David F. Ericson
"Hurtful to the state": the political morality of Federalist antislavery / Rachel Hope Cleves
Slavery and the problem of democracy in Jeffersonian America / Padraig Riley
Neither infinite wretchedness nor positive good: Mathew Carey and Henry Clay on political economy and slavery during the long 1820s / Andrew Shankman
The decline of antislavery politics, 1815-1840 / Donald J. Ratcliffe
Conflict vs. racial consensus in the story of antislavery politics / James Oakes.
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