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HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World

Slavery and politics in the early American republic / Matthew Mason.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]

[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2016]

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Slavery & politics in the early American republic

1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps.

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Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in which slavery went uncontested. The American Revolution set in motion the split between slave states and free states, but Mason explains that the divide took on greater importance in the early nineteenth century. He examines the partisan and geopolitical uses of slavery, the conflicts between free states and their slaveholding neighbors, and the political impact of African Americans across the country. Offering a full picture of the politics of slavery in the crucial years of the early republic, Mason demonstrates that partisans and patriots, slave and freeand not just abolitionists and advocates of slaveryshould be considered important players in the politics of slavery in the United States.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-330) and index.

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Original 9780807830499 (DLC) 2006013097

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