The sources of antislavery constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848
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- ISBN: 1501726455
- ISBN: 1501726463
- ISBN: 9781501726453
- ISBN: 9781501726460
- ISBN: 0801410894
- ISBN: 9780801410895
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1 online resource (306 pages) - Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©1977.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The Ambiguous Beginnings of Antislavery Constitutionalism: Somerset -- 2. Antislavery during and after the American Revolution -- 3. Slavery in the Making of the Constitution -- 4. Antislavery in the New Nation -- 5. Missouri Statehood: The Second Crisis of the Union -- 6. The Southern Counteroffensive -- 7. Antislavery Renascent -- 8. Constitutional Sparring -- 9. Moderate Constitutional Antislavery: Abolition Manquee -- 10. The Garrisonian Critique -- 11. Radical Constitutional Antislavery: The Imagined Past, the Remembered Future -- Epilogue: Beyond Free Soil. |
Language Note: | English. |
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Subject: | Constitutional history United States Slavery Law and legislation United States History |