Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 466 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195141776
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0195158059
Content:
Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document, but in this text, Don Fehrenbacher refutes this claim in a history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-452) and index
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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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195158052
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Slaveholding Republic : An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
Language:
English
