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By John Craig Hammond
Recent scholarship on slavery and politics among 1776 and 1840 has absolutely revised historians’ knowing of the matter of slavery in American politics. Contesting Slavery builds at the better of that literature to reexamine the politics of slavery in innovative the USA and the early republic.
The unique essays amassed right here research the progressive period and the early republic on their lonesome phrases to supply clean insights into the politics of slavery earlier than 1840. the gathering forces historians to reconsider the a number of meanings of slavery and antislavery to a wide array of american citizens, from unfastened and enslaved African american citizens to proslavery ideologues, from northern farmers to northern woman reformers, from minor celebration functionaries to political luminaries equivalent to Henry Clay.
The essays additionally delineate the a number of methods slavery sustained clash and consensus in neighborhood, neighborhood, and nationwide politics. in any case, Contesting Slavery either establishes the abiding presence of slavery and sectionalism in American political existence and demanding situations historians’ long-standing assumptions concerning the position, which means, and importance of slavery in American politics among the innovative and antebellum eras.
Contributors: Rachel wish Cleves, college of Victoria * David F. Ericson, George Mason collage * John Craig Hammond, Penn kingdom collage, New Kensington * Matthew Mason, Brigham younger collage * Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of know-how * James Oakes, CUNY Graduate middle * Peter S. Onuf, college of Virginia * Robert G. Parkinson, Shepherd college * Donald J. Ratcliffe, collage of Oxford * Padraig Riley, Dalhousie college * Edward B. Rugemer, Yale collage * Brian Schoen, Ohio college * Andrew Shankman, Rutgers collage, Camden * George William Van Cleve, collage of Virginia * Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco country University
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Tompkins told legislators in 1817, demanded that ‘‘the reproach of slavery be expunged from our statute book’’ by speeding up the existing process of gradual emancipation. The leaders of the NYMS leveraged this perceived need to firm up New York’s free-state credentials. ’’ In March 1817, the legislature followed the governor’s prodding and passed a law expediting gradual emancipation. ∂∂ Northerners in the Mid-Atlantic states bent on preserving their free-state identity got another opportunity to act when Missouri applied for admission to the Union in 1819.
MacLeod, Slavery, Race, and the American Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974); William W. Freehling, ‘‘The Founding Fathers and Slavery,’’ American Historical Review 77 (February 1972): 81–93; Ira Berlin, Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (New York: Pantheon, 1974); and Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Vintage, 1991), 7, 186–87. : Harvard University Press, 1998), pt. 3; and T. Stephen Whitman, Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865 (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007), chaps.
Gaffney, ‘‘Maine’s Mr. Smith: A Study of the Career of Francis O. J. D. , University of Maine, 1979), 342. For an especially powerful call to take antislavery politics seriously, despite its intermixture with ‘‘impure’’ motives, see Daniel Feller, ‘‘A Brother in Arms: Benjamin Tappan and the Antislavery Democracy,’’ Journal of American History 88 (June 2001): 48–74. 31 Early Free-Labor Thought and the Contest over Slavery in the Early Republic Eva Sheppard Wolf A generation before Adam Smith, in Wealth of Nations, criticized slavery as less efficient than free labor, Benjamin Franklin advanced a similar argument.