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Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom / Graham A. Peck

Peck, Graham A., 1969- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2017] [© 2017]

264 Seiten

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: Peck, Graham A., 1969- author : Making an antislavery nation. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-252-04136-5 ( : (cloth))

978-0-252-09996-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2017016680

OCoLC: 998594478     

E449

306.3/62097309034     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Abolitionismus ; Geschichte 1818-1860     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 ; Douglas, Stephen A -- (Stephen Arnold) -- 1813-1861 ; Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865

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