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Author:

Van Cleve, George, 1952-

Title:

A slaveholders' union : slavery, politics, and the constitution in the early American Republic / George William Van Cleve.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

391 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--History--18th century.
Slavery--History--19th century.
Slavery--Political aspects--United States.
Slavery--History--United States--History--18th century.
Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States--History--1783-1815.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Slavery in the American Revolution -- From Empire to Confederation -- Abolition, slavery reform, and the climate of opinion -- The making of the slaveholders' constitution -- Property and republican representation -- Sectional bargaining and moral union -- Slavery in the new nation -- From Constitution to Republican empire -- The Missouri compact and the rule of law -- Slavery and the dismal fate of Madisonian politics.

ISBN:

0226846687 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226846682 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)502304574

LCCN:

2010002454

Locations:

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

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)