ISBN:
9781315720869
,
9781317520238
,
9781317520245
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 309 pages)
Edition:
Third edition.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.362097309033
Keywords:
Slavery Law and legislation
;
History
;
Slavery History
Abstract:
1. Making a covenant with death : slavery and the Constitutional Convention -- 2. Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance, 1787 : a study in ambiguity -- 3. Evading the Ordinance : the persistence of bondage in Indiana and Illinois -- 4. Implementing the proslavery constitution : the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 -- 5. Ending the African slave trade in the new nation -- 6. The problem of slavery in the age of federalism -- 7. "Treason against the hopes of the world" : Thomas Jefferson and slavery -- 8. Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and antislavery : historians and myths.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index
DOI:
10.4324/9781315720869
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