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Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom / Graham A. Peck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peck, Graham A., 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
- Douglas, Stephen A.
- Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Political aspects.
- United States.
- History.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Prelude: an inheritance of slavery
- The nation's conflict over slavery in miniature: Illinois, 1818-1824
- Democrats, Whigs, and party conflict, 1825-1842
- Manifest Destiny, slavery, and the rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843-1847
- Advocates for an antislavery nation, 1837-1848
- Stephen A. Douglas and the northern democratic origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849-1854
- The collapse of the Douglas democracy, 1854-1860
- Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of an antislavery nationalism, 1854-1860
- Conclusion: the northern Democrats' dilemma over slavery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Peck, Graham A., 1969- Making an antislavery nation.
- ISBN:
- 9780252041365
- 0252041364
- OCLC:
- 982185033
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