Contesting slavery the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation / edited by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason.
| Other author | Hammond, John Craig, 1974- |
| Other author | Mason, Matthew, 1968- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, |
| Description | xvii, 313 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from UPCC Books History 2011 Subject Collection |
| Subjects |
| Series | Jeffersonian America Jeffersonian America. ^A426223 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010037050 |
| ISBN | 9780813931050 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0813931053 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813931173 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0813931177 (e-book) |