Eighty-Eight Years : the Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865.

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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rael, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Colección:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Temas:
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > Caribbean Area > History.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Slavery
Slavery > Political aspects
Slavernij.
Abolitionisme.
Caribbean Area
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • PROLOGUE: A House Divided
  • INTRODUCTION: The Slave Power
  • SECTION 1. THE AGE OF REVOLUTION
  • CHAPTER 1: Impious Prayers: Slavery and the Revolution
  • CHAPTER 2: Half Slave and Half Free: The Founding of the United States
  • SECTION 2. THE EARLY REPUBLIC
  • CHAPTER 3: A House Dividing: Atlantic Slavery and Abolition in the Era of the Early Republic
  • CHAPTER 4: To Become a Great Nation: Caste and Resistance in the Age of Emancipations
  • SECTION 3. THE AGE OF IMMEDIATISM
  • CHAPTER 5: Minds Long Set on Freedom: Rebellion, Metropolitan Abolition, and Sectional Conflict
  • CHAPTER 6: Ere the Storm Come Forth: Antislavery Militance and the Collapse of Party Politics
  • SECTION 4. THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
  • CHAPTER 7: This Terrible War: Secession, Civil War, and Emancipation
  • CHAPTER 8: One Hundred Years: Reconstruction
  • CONCLUSION: What Peace among the Whites Brought
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
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