1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792259603321

Autore

Fehrenbacher Don E

Titolo

Slaveholding Republic [[electronic resource] ] : An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-028912-0

1-280-65539-9

0-19-803247-1

1-60256-719-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (481 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McAfeeWard M

Disciplina

326/.0973

Soggetti

African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 18th century

African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century

Constitutional history -- United States

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Slavery -- Government policy -- United States -- History

Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History

United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783

Slavery - Political aspects - History - 18th century - United States

Slavery - Government policy - History - 19th century - United States

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Legal status, laws, etc

Constitutional history - Legal status, laws, etc - History

African Americans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC; 3 SLAVERY IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL; 4 SLAVERY IN AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS; 5 THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, 1789 TO 1842; 6 THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, 1842 TO 1862; 7 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE PROBLEM TO 1850; 8 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE PROBLEM, 1850 TO 1864; 9 SLAVERY IN THE FEDERAL TERRITORIES; 10 THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION; 11 CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX;



Sommario/riassunto

Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal la

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164709303321

Titolo

Quality assurance for environmental measurements : a symposium / / editors, John K. Taylor, T. W. Stanley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : ASTM; , 1985

©1985

ISBN

0-8031-4932-8

Collana

ASTM special technical publication  Quality assurance for environmental measurements

Disciplina

628.5/028/7

Soggetti

Pollution - Measurement - United States

Quality assurance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Proceedings of the Conference on Quality Assurance for Environmental Measurements, held Aug. 8-12, 1983, Boulder, Colo

"ASTM publication code number (PCN) 04-867000-16."