Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic /
Challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. This book demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2006]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. This book demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in which slavery went uncontested. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations, maps |
ISBN: | 9781469606101 |