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The slaveholding republic an account of the United States government's relations to slavery / by Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward), 1920-1997

Subjects: “…African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. History 18th century.…”
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Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson a study in character / by Kennedy, Roger G.

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Traveling south travel narratives and the construction of American identity / by Cox, John David

Table of Contents: “…John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram -- Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America -- Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture -- Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.…”
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Freedom, union, and power Lincoln and his party during the Civil War / by Green, Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…Freedom, union, and power : the Civil War Republican Party -- Free labor, freed labor, and free capital -- The great secession winter and the politics of power and responsibility -- Lincoln's warring cabinet : many secretaries, one ideology -- The Republicans and slavery -- Law and order : the Republicans, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution -- The paradox of power : Republicans and the military -- The Republican Party, the Union Party, and Lincoln's reelection -- Reforming and remaking the Nation.…”
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Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas by Guelzo, Allen C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The unlikely intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln and the doctrine of necessity -- Come-outers and community-men: Abraham Lincoln and the idea of community in nineteenth-century America -- Lincoln and natural law -- "Fiends ... facing Zionwards": Abraham Lincoln's reluctant embrace of the abolitionists -- Apples of gold in a picture of silver: Lincoln, the constitution, and liberty -- Understanding emancipation: Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery -- Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, August 1863 -- Prudence and the Proclamation -- Lincoln and the "war powers" of the Presidency.…”
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