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Author:

Rael, Patrick, author.

Title:

Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 / Patrick Rael.

Publisher:

The University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--United States--History.
Slavery--Caribbean Area--History.
Slavery--History.--United States--History.
Slavery--History.--Caribbean Area--History.
Slavery.
Slavery--Political aspects.
Caribbean Area.
United States.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A house divided -- The Slave Power -- The Age of Revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United States -- The Early Republic. A house dividing : Atlantic slavery and abolition in the era of the early republic ; To become a great nation : caste and resistance in the age of emancipations -- The Age of Immediatism. MInds long set on freedom : rebellion, metropolitan abolition, and sectional conflict ; Ere the storm come forth : antislavery militance and the collapse of party politics -- The Civil War and Reconstruction. This terrible war : secession, civil war, and emancipation ; One hundred years : reconstruction ; What peace among the whites brought.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

ISBN:

0820348392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820348391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820333956 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820333953 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)892432246

LCCN:

2014042982

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)