num_pages: 260
description: This book analyses the impact of American Revolutionary ideology upon conceptions of the place of slavery in American society. The ambivalence involved in a libertarian revolution occurring in a slave society was as obvious to eighteenth-century Americans as it is to twentieth-century historians yet the obvious sincerity of Southern Republicanism and the persistence of slavery have presented a paradox with which historians have hardly come to terms.
language: English
title: Slavery, Race and the American Revolution
titlecomplete: Slavery, Race and the American Revolution
genres: History
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Cambridge University Press