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Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom
Title
Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom / Graham A. Peck.
ISBN
9780252041365
0252041364
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Physical Description
264 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Other formats
Online version: Peck, Graham A., 1969- Making an antislavery nation. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 18, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prelude: an inheritance of slavery
The nation's conflict over slavery in miniature: Illinois, 1818-1824
Democrats, Whigs, and party conflict, 1825-1842
Manifest Destiny, slavery, and the rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843-1847
Advocates for an antislavery nation, 1837-1848
Stephen A. Douglas and the northern democratic origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849-1854
The collapse of the Douglas democracy, 1854-1860
Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of an antislavery nationalism, 1854-1860
Conclusion: the northern Democrats' dilemma over slavery.
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