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Slavery and the Democratic Conscience : Political Life in Jeffersonian America /

Democracy and slavery collided in the early American republic, nowhere more so than in the Democratic-Republican party, the political coalition that elected Thomas Jefferson president in 1800 and governed the United States into the 1820s. Joining southern slaveholders and northern advocates of democ...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Riley, Padraig (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. North of Jefferson
  • Chapter 1. The Emancipation of New England
  • Chapter 2. Philadelphia, Crossroads of Democracy
  • Chapter 3. Jeffersonians Go to Washington
  • Chapter 4. The Idea of a Northern Party
  • Chapter 5. Republican Nation: The War of 1812
  • Chapter 6. Democracy in Crisis
  • Conclusion. Democracy, Race, Nation
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.