Making an Antislavery Nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


