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Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding fathers" such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West, John Craig Hamm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammond, John Craig
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Colección:Jeffersonian America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Overextended Republic, 1787-1820
  • 1. Ordinances, Limits, and Precedents, 1784-1796
  • 2. "That Species of Property Already Exists"Natchez, Mississippi, 1795-1800
  • 3. "Grant Us to Make Slaves of Others "The Louisiana Purchase, 1802-1805
  • 4. Slaveholders' Democracy, the Union, and the NationMissouri, 1805-1820
  • 5. "Hot Times about Slavery and Republicanism"Ohio, 1799-1802
  • 6. Slaveholding Nationalism and Popular Antislavery PoliticsIndiana and Illinois, 1801-1818
  • 7. Making the "Free Northwest"Slavery and Freedom in Ohio and Indiana, 1790-1818
  • 8. "The States or Territories which May Hereafter Be Admitted into the Union "The Missouri Crisis and the West
  • Epilogue Empire for Slavery, Empire for Freedom
  • Notes
  • Index