The sources of antislavery constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiecek, William M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press ©1977, 1977
Subjects:
Usa
Online Access:
Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 1. The Ambiguous Beginnings of Antislavery Constitutionalism: Somerset
  • 2. Antislavery during and after the American Revolution
  • 3. Slavery in the Making of the Constitution
  • 4. Antislavery in the New Nation
  • 5. Missouri Statehood: The Second Crisis of the Union
  • 6. The Southern Counteroffensive
  • 7. Antislavery Renascent
  • 8. Constitutional Sparring
  • 9. Moderate Constitutional Antislavery: Abolition Manquee
  • 10. The Garrisonian Critique
  • 11. Radical Constitutional Antislavery: The Imagined Past, the Remembered Future
  • Epilogue: Beyond Free Soil