{"product_id":"contesting-slavery-the-politics-of-bondage-and-freedom-in-the-new-american-nation-paperback","title":"Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Craig Hammond\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Mason\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians' understanding of the problem of slavery in American politics. \u003ci\u003eContesting Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e builds on the best of that literature to reexamine the politics of slavery in revolutionary America and the early republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original essays collected here analyze the Revolutionary era and the early republic on their own terms to produce fresh insights into the politics of slavery before 1840. The collection forces historians to rethink the multiple meanings of slavery and antislavery to a broad array of Americans, from free and enslaved African Americans to proslavery ideologues, from northern farmers to northern female reformers, from minor party functionaries to political luminaries such as Henry Clay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays also delineate the multiple ways slavery sustained conflict and consensus in local, regional, and national politics. In the end, \u003ci\u003eContesting Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e both establishes the abiding presence of slavery and sectionalism in American political life and challenges historians' long-standing assumptions about the place, meaning, and significance of slavery in American politics between the Revolutionary and antebellum eras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria * David F. Ericson, George Mason University * John Craig Hammond, Penn State University, New Kensington * Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University * Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology * James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center * Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia * Robert G. Parkinson, Shepherd University * Donald J. Ratcliffe, University of Oxford * Padraig Riley, Dalhousie University * Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University * Brian Schoen, Ohio University * Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden * George William Van Cleve, University of Virginia * Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Craig Hammond is Assistant Professor of History at Penn State University, New Kensington, and the author of \u003ci\u003eSlavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West\u003c\/i\u003e (Virginia). Matthew Mason is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the author of \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Politics in the Early American Republic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 7.4 x 9.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757792821536,"sku":"9780813933054","price":54.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d950f0a8487e1caee9d2157b42da59e8.webp?v=1780111917","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/contesting-slavery-the-politics-of-bondage-and-freedom-in-the-new-american-nation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}