A Slaveholders' Union
Subtitle: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, USA; London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 391
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Slavery in the American Revolution; label: 1.
title: From empire to confederation
pagenum: 17; label: 2.
title: Abolition, slavery reform, and the climate of opinion
pagenum: 59; title: Part 2: The Making of the Slaveholders' Constitution; label: 3.
title: Property and Republican representation
pagenum: 103; label: 4.
title: Sectional bargaining and the moral union
pagenum: 143; title: Part 3: Slavery in the New Nation; label: 5.
title: From constitution to Republican empire
pagenum: 187; label: 6.
title: The Missouri Compact and the rule of law
pagenum: 225; title: Conclusion: Slavery and the dismal fate of Madisonian politics
pagenum: 267