03666nam 2200745Ia 450 991080775340332120200520144314.00-19-028912-01-280-65539-90-19-803247-11-60256-719-0(CKB)2560000000294369(EBL)279459(OCoLC)560020410(SSID)ssj0000284224(PQKBManifestationID)11193707(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284224(PQKBWorkID)10260979(PQKB)11737335(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023160(MiAaPQ)EBC279459(OCoLC)44427242(FINmELB)ELB162954(EXLCZ)99256000000029436920000405d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe slaveholding republic an account of the United States government's relations to slavery /Don E. Fehrenbacher ; completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee1st ed.New York 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 (p. [345]-452) 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 laSlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistorySlaveryGovernment policyUnited StatesHistoryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Constitutional historyUnited StatesAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etcHistory18th centuryAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etcHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1775-1783United StatesPolitics and government1783-1865United StatesPolitics and government1865-1877SlaveryPolitical aspectsHistory.SlaveryGovernment policyHistory.Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Constitutional historyAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.HistoryAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.History326/.0973Fehrenbacher Don E(Don Edward),1920-1997.1735916McAfee Ward1762092MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807753403321The slaveholding republic4201806UNINA