04254nam 22008293u 450 991046559110332120210108172027.00-19-028912-01-280-65539-90-19-803247-11-60256-719-0(CKB)2560000000294369(EBL)279459(OCoLC)560020410(SSID)ssj0000284224(PQKBManifestationID)11193707(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284224(PQKBWorkID)10260979(PQKB)11737335(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023160(MiAaPQ)EBC279459(EXLCZ)99256000000029436920160725d2002|||| u|| |engur|||||||||||txtccrSlaveholding Republic[electronic resource] An Account of the United States Government's Relations to SlaveryNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press20011 online resource (481 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-515805-9 0-19-984947-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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;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 laAfrican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 18th centuryAfrican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th centuryConstitutional history -- United StatesReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Slavery -- Government policy -- United States -- HistorySlavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- HistoryUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783SlaveryPolitical aspectsHistory18th centuryUnited StatesSlaveryGovernment policyHistory19th centuryUnited StatesReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Legal status, laws, etcConstitutional historyLegal status, laws, etcHistoryAfrican AmericansElectronic books.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.SlaveryPolitical aspectsHistorySlaveryGovernment policyHistoryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Legal status, laws, etc.Constitutional historyLegal status, laws, etcHistoryAfrican Americans326/.0973Fehrenbacher Don E891432McAfee Ward M891433AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910465591103321Slaveholding Republic1991079UNINA