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Contesting slavery : the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation / edited by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason.

Other author/creatorHammond, John Craig, 1974-
Other author/creatorMason, Matthew, 1968-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Descriptionxvii, 313 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
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 --
Contents 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010037050
ISBN9780813931050 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0813931053 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780813931173 (e-book)
ISBN0813931177 (e-book)

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