TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hammond,John Craig
AU  - Mason,Matthew
TI  - Contesting slavery: the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation 
T2  - Jeffersonian America
SN  - 9780813933054 (paper)
U1  - 326.80973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Sectionalism (United States)
KW  - fast
KW  - Political science
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1775-1783
KW  - 1783-1865
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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