Contesting slavery : the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation /
Contesting slavery : the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation /
edited by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- xvii, 313 p. : map ; 24 cm.
- Jeffersonian America .
- Jeffersonian America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slavery, sectionalism, and politics in the early American republic / 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 / John Craig Hammond, Matthew Mason -- Matthew Mason -- Eva Sheppard Wolf -- Robert G. Parkinson -- Richard Newman -- Edward B. Rugemer -- 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 / "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 / Conflict vs. racial consensus in the story of antislavery politics / George William Van Cleve -- John Craig Hammond -- Brian Schoen -- David F. Ericson -- Rachel Hope Cleves -- Padraig Riley -- Andrew Shankman -- Donald J. Ratcliffe -- James Oakes.
9780813933054 (paper) 0813933056 (paper)
1700 - 1899
Slavery--Political aspects--History--United States--18th century.
Slavery--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--18th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Sectionalism (United States)--History--18th century.
Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements.
Political science.
Sectionalism (United States)
Slavery--Political aspects.
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
United States.
History.
326.80973
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slavery, sectionalism, and politics in the early American republic / 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 / John Craig Hammond, Matthew Mason -- Matthew Mason -- Eva Sheppard Wolf -- Robert G. Parkinson -- Richard Newman -- Edward B. Rugemer -- 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 / "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 / Conflict vs. racial consensus in the story of antislavery politics / George William Van Cleve -- John Craig Hammond -- Brian Schoen -- David F. Ericson -- Rachel Hope Cleves -- Padraig Riley -- Andrew Shankman -- Donald J. Ratcliffe -- James Oakes.
9780813933054 (paper) 0813933056 (paper)
1700 - 1899
Slavery--Political aspects--History--United States--18th century.
Slavery--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--18th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Sectionalism (United States)--History--18th century.
Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements.
Political science.
Sectionalism (United States)
Slavery--Political aspects.
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
United States.
History.
326.80973