Freedom's delay : America's struggle for emancipation, 1776-1865 / Allen Carden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carden, Allen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--History.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Allen Carden is professor of history at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California. He is the author of <i>Puritan Christianity in America: Religion and Life in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.</i></div>

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Slavery and Revolution: Truths Not So Self-Evident

2. Slavery and the Constitution: Freedom Compromised

3. Stumbling Forward: Emancipation Proceeds in New England and Pennsylvania

4. Forward to the Past: The South's "Cavalier Kingdom"

5. The Arithmetic of Emancipation: From the Purchase of Louisiana to the Compromise over Missouri

6. The Sunset of Northern Slavery: Freedom without Equality

7. The Wolf by the Ear: Slave Resistance, White Reaction, and the Growing Abolitionist Movement

8. Freedom's Faith: Slavery Sectionalizes the Sacred

9. Slavery and Manifest Division: The Mexican Cession, FreeSoilers, and the Compromise of 1850

10. Rushing toward Disunion: Slavery and the Factious 1850s

11. Presidential Politics and the War for Slavery: The Southern Decision to Secede

12. Thenceforward, and Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation

13. Slavery's Death Throes: Emancipation during the Civil War

14. Union Victory and the Thirteenth Amendment: Free at Last?

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-343) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781621900719

1621900711

OCLC:

894024946