The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 /
This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to constitutional thought, William M. Wiecek surveys the antislavery societies, t...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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תוכן הענינים:
- The ambiguous beginnings of antislavery constitutionalism : Somerset
- Antislavery during and after the American Revolution
- Slavery in the making of the Constitution
- Antislavery in the new nation
- Missouri statehood : the second crisis of the union
- The Southern counteroffensive
- Antislavery renascent
- Constitutional sparring
- Moderate constitutional antislavery : abolition manquee
- The Garrisonian critique
- Radical constitutional antislavery : the imagined past, the remembered future
- Epilogue : beyond free soil.