Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peck, Graham A., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Douglas, Stephen A. > (Stephen Arnold), > 1813-1861.
Douglas, Stephen A. > (Stephen Arnold), > 1813-1861
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865
1783-1899
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Antislavery movements
Politics and government
Slavery > Political aspects
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1783-1865.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: an inheritance of slavery
  • The nation's conflict over slavery in miniature: Illinois, 1818-1824
  • Democrats, Whigs, and party conflict, 1825-1842
  • Manifest Destiny, slavery, and the rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843-1847
  • Advocates for an antislavery nation, 1837-1848
  • Stephen A. Douglas and the northern democratic origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849-1854
  • The collapse of the Douglas democracy, 1854-1860
  • Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of an antislavery nationalism, 1854-1860
  • Conclusion: the northern Democrats' dilemma over slavery.

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