Slavery and the Democratic Conscience : : Political Life in Jeffersonian America / / Padraig Riley.
Democracy and slavery collided in the early American republic, nowhere more so than in the Democratic-Republican party, the political coalition that elected Thomas Jefferson president in 1800 and governed the United States into the 1820s. Joining southern slaveholders and northern advocates of democ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. North of Jefferson
- Chapter 1. The Emancipation of New England
- Chapter 2. Philadelphia, Crossroads of Democracy
- Chapter 3. Jeffersonians Go to Washington
- Chapter 4. The Idea of a Northern Party
- Chapter 5. Republican Nation: The War of 1812
- Chapter 6. Democracy in Crisis
- Conclusion. Democracy, Race, Nation
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments