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

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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Autor principal: Rael, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Abolitionisme.
Slavernij.
Slavery > Political aspects.
Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Slavery > Political aspects > Caribbean Area > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
United States.
Caribbean Area.
History.
Electronic books.
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
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