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Slavery and the founders : race and liberty in the age of Jefferson Paul Finkelman
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KF 4545 .S5 F565 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finkelman, Paul, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, New York : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [2014]
- Contents:
- Making a covenant with death : slavery and the Constitutional Convention
- Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance, 1787 : a study in ambiguity
- Evading the Ordinance : the persistence of bondage in Indiana and Illinois
- Implementing the proslavery constitution : the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
- Ending the African slave trade in the new nation
- The problem of slavery in the age of federalism
- "Treason against the hopes of the world" : Thomas Jefferson and slavery
- Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and antislavery : historians and myths.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9780765641458 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0765641453 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780765641465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0765641461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 862588735
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