Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West / John Craig Hammond

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826378603321
• Autore: Hammond John Craig <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2007; ©2007
• ISBN: 9780813946047
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Jeffersonian America
• Disciplina: 306.36208996073076
• Soggetti: Politik; Sklaverei; Territorial expansion; Slavery - Political aspects; Slavery - Extension to the territories; Politics and government; Frontier and pioneer life; Slavery - United States - Extension to the territories; Frontier and pioneer life - Middle West; Frontier and pioneer life - Southwest, Old; Slavery - Political aspects - Middle West - History; Slavery - Political aspects - Southwest, Old - History; History; USA Südweststaaten; Frontier; Mittlerer Westen; United States Old Southwest; United States; Middle West; United States Politics and government 1809-1817; United States Politics and government 1789-1809; United States Territorial expansion; Middle West Politics and government; Southwest, Old Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Overextended Republic, 1787-1820 -- Ordinances, Limits, and Precedents, 1784-1796 -- "That Species of Property Already Exists": Natchez, Mississippi, 1795-1800 -- "Grant Us to Make Slaves of Others": The Louisiana Purchase, 1802-1805 -- Slaveholders' Democracy, the Union, and the Nation: Missouri, 1805-1820 -- "Hot Times about Slavery and Republicanism": Ohio, 1799-1802 -- Slaveholding Nationalism and Popular Antislavery Politics: Indiana and Illinois, 1801-1818 -- Making the "Free Northwest": Slavery and Freedom in Ohio and Indiana, 1790-1818 -- "The States or Territories which May Hereafter Be Admitted into the Union": The Missouri Crisis and the West -- Epilogue: Empire for Slavery, Empire for Freedom.