New England Federalists : widening the sectional divide in Jeffersonian America / Dinah Mayo-Bobee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayo-Bobee, Dinah, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

Series:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal Party (U.S.).

United States--Politics and government--1801-1809.

United States.

Politics and government.

New England--Politics and government--1775-1865.

New England.

Sectionalism (United States).

Physical Description:

xvi, 231 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks on U.S. neutral trade in 1805, this book looks at crucial developments in national politics, public policy, and foreign relations from the perspective of New England Federalists. Through its focus on the partisan climate in Congress that appeared to influence federal statutes, New England Federalists: Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America sets out to explain, in their own words, why Federalists, especially those often deemed extreme or radical by contemporaries and historians alike, escalated a campaign to repeal the Constitution s three-fifths clause (which included slaves in the calculation for congressional representation and votes in the Electoral College) while encouraging violations of federal law and advocating northern secession from the Union. Unlike traditional interpretations of early nineteenth-century politics that focus on Jeffersonian political economy, this study brings the impetus for Federalist obstructionism and sectionalism into sharp relief. Federalists who became the sole defenders of New England s economic independence and free labor force, later issued calls for northerners to unite against the spread of slavery and southern control of the central government. Along with controversies that placed sectional harmony in jeopardy, this work links themes in Federalist opposition rhetoric to the important antislavery arguments that would flourish in antebellum culture and politics."

Contents:

Introduction: the "gloomy night of democracy": Federalist opposition to the Three-Fifths Clause

Have these Haytians no rights: restricting trade to safeguard slavery (1805-1806)

Indissolubly connected with commerce: nonimportation, southern sectionalism, and the defense of New England

Squabbles in Madam Liberty's family: Jefferson's embargo and the causes of Federalist extremism (1807-1808)

O grab me!: the justification for disunion (1808-1809)

Sincere neutrality: war, moderates, and the Federalists Party's decline (1810-1820)

Epilogue: Old Romans Federalist activism and the antislavery legacy (1820-1865).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Mayo-Bobee, Dinah, 1957- author. New England Federalists

ISBN:

9781611479850

1611479851

OCLC:

969160413