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



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Autore: Fehrenbacher Don E Visualizza persona
Titolo: Slaveholding Republic [[electronic resource] ] : An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 p.)
Disciplina: 326/.0973
Soggetto topico: 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
Altri autori: McAfeeWard M  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Slaveholding Republic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-028912-0
1-280-65539-9
0-19-803247-1
1-60256-719-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792259603321
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