UID:
almahu_9949597270902882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 339 p.) :
,
ill., maps.
ISBN:
9781469606101 (ebook) :
Content:
Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, this book challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. It demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in which slavery went uncontested. The American Revolution set in motion the split between slave states and free states, but the book explains that the divide took on greater importance in the early nineteenth century.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780807830499
Language:
English
URL:
North Carolina scholarship online
