Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the "gloomy night of democracy": Federalist opposition to the Three-Fifths Clause
  • Have these Haytians no rights: restricting trade to safeguard slavery (1805-1806)
  • Indissolubly connected with commerce: nonimportation, southern sectionalism, and the defense of New England
  • Squabbles in Madam Liberty's family: Jefferson's embargo and the causes of Federalist extremism (1807-1808)
  • O grab me!: the justification for disunion (1808-1809)
  • Sincere neutrality: war, moderates, and the Federalists Party's decline (1810-1820)
  • Epilogue: Old Romans Federalist activism and the antislavery legacy (1820-1865).