Title:
Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 / Patrick Rael.
Author:
Rael, Patrick, author.
Publication Information:
Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Call Number:
E441 .R28 2015
ISBN:
9780820333953
9780820348391
Series:
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Physical Description:
xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
A house divided -- The Slave Power -- The Age of Revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United States -- The Early Republic. A house dividing : Atlantic slavery and abolition in the era of the early republic ; To become a great nation : caste and resistance in the age of emancipations -- The Age of Immediatism. MInds long set on freedom : rebellion, metropolitan abolition, and sectional conflict ; Ere the storm come forth : antislavery militance and the collapse of party politics -- The Civil War and Reconstruction. This terrible war : secession, civil war, and emancipation ; One hundred years : reconstruction ; What peace among the whites brought.
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