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The centrality of slavery : empire and enslavement in colonial Illinois and Missouri / John Craig Hammond.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammond, John Craig, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Early American studies.
- Early American Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Political aspects--Mississippi River Valley--History--18th century.
- Slavery.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--1803-1865.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "This book examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained and challenged systems of slavery, and the centrality of imperial state power in present-day Illinois and Missouri. Beginning with French colonizers creating systems of Indigenous and African slavery in the 1720s, it concludes with the Missouri Crisis of 1819"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Sovereignty, slavery, and empire in the Mississippi Valley
- Making and re-making slavery and empire in the Middle Mississippi Valley, 1720-1790
- Challenging, undermining, and strengthening slavery in the Middle Mississippi Valley, 1750-1790
- Diverging regimes : upper Louisiana and Illinois, 1780-1803
- The Louisiana Purchase, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Middle Mississippi Valley, 1803-1805
- Expanding empire, enterprise, and enslavement in Missouri, 1805-1818
- "A cob web of legislation" : Slavery in Illinois, 1805-1818
- The Middle Mississippi Valley crisis and the future of empire and enslavement, 1818-1820.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hammond, John Craig The Centrality of Slavery
- ISBN:
- 9781512828436
- OCLC:
- 1519529842
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