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Contesting Slavery : The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jeffersonian America SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813931173
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contesting SlaveryDDC classification:
  • 326/.80973
LOC classification:
  • E446.C71 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Politics in the Early American Republic -- PART I: SLAVERY AND IDEOLOGY, ACTION AND INACTION -- Necessary but Not Sufficient: Revolutionary Ideology and Antislavery Action in the Early Republic -- Early Free-Labor Thought and the Contest over Slavery in the Early Republic -- ''Manifest Signs of Passion'': The First Federal Congress, Antislavery, and Legacies of the Revolutionary War -- ''Good Communications Corrects Bad Manners'': The Banneker-Jefferson Dialogue and the Project of White Uplift -- Caribbean Slave Revolts and the Origins of the Gag Rule: A Contest between Abolitionism and Democracy, 1797-1835 -- PART II: THE STATE AND SLAVERY -- Founding a Slaveholders' Union, 1770-1797 -- ''Uncontrollable Necessity'': The Local Politics, Geopolitics, and Sectional Politics of Slavery Expansion -- Positive Goods and Necessary Evils: Commerce, Security, and Slavery in the Lower South, 1787-1837 -- Slave Smugglers, Slave Catchers, and Slave Rebels: Slavery and American State Development, 1787-1842 -- PART III: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND PARTISAN POLITICS -- ''Hurtful to the State'': The Political Morality of Federalist Antislavery -- Slavery and the Problem of Democracy in Jeffersonian America -- Neither Infinite Wretchedness nor Positive Good: Mathew Carey and Henry Clay on Political Economy and Slavery during the Long 1820s -- The Decline of Antislavery Politics, 1815-1840 -- COMMENTARY: Conflict vs. Racial Consensus in the History of Antislavery Politics -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: Ratcliffe, University of Oxford * Padraig Riley, Dalhousie University * Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University * Brian Schoen, Ohio University * Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden * George William Van Cleve, University of Virginia * Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Politics in the Early American Republic -- PART I: SLAVERY AND IDEOLOGY, ACTION AND INACTION -- Necessary but Not Sufficient: Revolutionary Ideology and Antislavery Action in the Early Republic -- Early Free-Labor Thought and the Contest over Slavery in the Early Republic -- ''Manifest Signs of Passion'': The First Federal Congress, Antislavery, and Legacies of the Revolutionary War -- ''Good Communications Corrects Bad Manners'': The Banneker-Jefferson Dialogue and the Project of White Uplift -- Caribbean Slave Revolts and the Origins of the Gag Rule: A Contest between Abolitionism and Democracy, 1797-1835 -- PART II: THE STATE AND SLAVERY -- Founding a Slaveholders' Union, 1770-1797 -- ''Uncontrollable Necessity'': The Local Politics, Geopolitics, and Sectional Politics of Slavery Expansion -- Positive Goods and Necessary Evils: Commerce, Security, and Slavery in the Lower South, 1787-1837 -- Slave Smugglers, Slave Catchers, and Slave Rebels: Slavery and American State Development, 1787-1842 -- PART III: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND PARTISAN POLITICS -- ''Hurtful to the State'': The Political Morality of Federalist Antislavery -- Slavery and the Problem of Democracy in Jeffersonian America -- Neither Infinite Wretchedness nor Positive Good: Mathew Carey and Henry Clay on Political Economy and Slavery during the Long 1820s -- The Decline of Antislavery Politics, 1815-1840 -- COMMENTARY: Conflict vs. Racial Consensus in the History of Antislavery Politics -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Ratcliffe, University of Oxford * Padraig Riley, Dalhousie University * Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University * Brian Schoen, Ohio University * Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden * George William Van Cleve, University of Virginia * Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University.

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