Contesting slavery : the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation 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