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The slaveholding republic : an account of the United States government's relations to slavery
2001,2002
Overview
Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But this book refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The book 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 law). Nevertheless, it also reveals that US policy abroad and in the territories was consistently proslavery. The book makes clear why Lincoln's election was such a shock to the South and shows how Lincoln's approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by modern standards, quickly evolved into a “Republican revolution” that ended the anomaly of the United States as a “slaveholding republic”.
Publisher
Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject
/ Afro-Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 18th century
/ Afro-Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century
/ Constitutional history -- United States
/ Early 19th Century US History
/ History
/ Law
/ Legal and Constitutional History
/ Politics
/ Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
/ Slavery
/ Slavery -- Government policy -- United States -- History
/ Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
/ Slavery and Abolition of Slavery
/ U.S.A
/ United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
/ United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
ISBN
0195141776, 9780195141771, 9780195158052, 0195158059
