Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
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Part of the series Jeffersonian America;Jeffersonian America.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Slavery, sectionalism, and politics in the early American republic / John Craig Hammond, Matthew Mason — Necessary but not sufficient : revolutionary ideology and antislavery action in the early republic / Matthew Mason — Early free-labor thought and the contest over slavery in the early Republic / Eva Sheppard Wolf — Manifest signs of passion : the first federal congress, antislavery, and legacies of the Revolutionary War / Robert G. Parkinson — Good communications corrects bad manners : the Banneker-Jefferson dialogue and the project of white uplift / Richard Newman — Caribbean slave revolts and the origins of the gag rule : a contest between abolitionism and democracy, 1797-1835 / Edward B. Rugemer –
• Founding a slaveholders’ union, 1770-1797 / George William Van Cleve — Uncontrollable necessity : the local politics, geopolitics, and sectional politics of slavery expansion / John Craig Hammond — Positive goods and necessary evils : commerce, security, and slavery in the lower south, 1787-1837 / Brian Schoen — Slave smugglers, slave catchers, and slave rebels : slavery and American state development, 1787-1842 / David F. Ericson — Hurtful to the state : the political morality of Federalist antislavery / Rachel Hope Cleves — Slavery and the problem of democracy in Jeffersonian America / Padraig Riley — Neither infinite wretchedness nor positive good : Mathew Carey and Henry Clay on political economy and slavery during the long 1820s / Andrew Shankman — The decline of antislavery politics, 1815-1840 / Donald J. Ratcliffe — Conflict vs. racial consensus in the story of antislavery politics / James Oakes.

Subjects:

• Slavery — Political aspects — United States — History — 18th century.
• Slavery — Political aspects — United States — History — 19th century.
• Antislavery movements — United States — History — 18th century.
• Antislavery movements — United States — History — 19th century.
• United States — Politics and government — 1775-1783.
• United States — Politics and government — 1783-1865.
• Sectionalism (United States) — History — 18th century.
• Sectionalism (United States) — History — 19th century.

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