ISBN:
9781501715860
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9781501715853
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 519 pages)
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Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
DDC:
306.36209747
Keywords:
Jay family
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Slavery History 18th century
;
Slavery History 19th century
;
Antislavery movements History 18th century
;
Antislavery movements History 19th century
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Society
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United States of America, USA
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US Northeast
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US South: South Atlantic States
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17th century, c 1600 to c 1699
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History of the Americas
Abstract:
David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic. This book forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers - and racist mobs - did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery and to combat northern injustice.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7591/cornell/9781501715846.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501715846.001.0001
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