Sale!

The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery

Amazon.com Price:  $17.96 (as of 23/04/2019 14:43 PST- Details)

Description

Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the US used to be a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of The us’s most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself used to be kind of neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the concept the Constitution secure slavery used to be hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery used to be secure by state law, not by federal law). However, he also reveals that U.S. policy in another country and in the territories used to be consistently proslavery. Fehrenbacher makes clear why Lincoln’s election used to be this type of shock to the South and shows how Lincoln’s approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by brand new standards, quickly evolved into a “Republican revolution” that ended the anomaly of the US as a “slaveholding republic.”

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » Civil War » Abolition » The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery

Recent Products