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The slaveholding republic : an account of the United States government's relations to slavery / Don E. Fehrenbacher ; completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward), 1920-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Government policy--United States--History.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History--18th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History--19th century.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal la
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC; 3 SLAVERY IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL; 4 SLAVERY IN AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS; 5 THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, 1789 TO 1842; 6 THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, 1842 TO 1862; 7 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE PROBLEM TO 1850; 8 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE PROBLEM, 1850 TO 1864; 9 SLAVERY IN THE FEDERAL TERRITORIES; 10 THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION; 11 CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-452) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028912-0
- 1-280-65539-9
- 0-19-803247-1
- 1-60256-719-0
- OCLC:
- 560020410
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