Making an antislavery nation
Subtitle: Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom
By: Graham A. Peck
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780252041365
Subjects: Politics and government; History; Antislavery movements; Slavery; Abolitionists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: an inheritance of slavery; title: The nation's conflict over slavery in miniature: Illinois, 1818-1824; title: Democrats, Whigs, and party conflict, 1825-1842; title: Manifest Destiny, slavery, and the rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843-1847; title: Advocates for an antislavery nation, 1837-1848; title: Stephen A. Douglas and the northern democratic origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849-1854; title: The collapse of the Douglas democracy, 1854-1860; title: Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of an antislavery nationalism, 1854-1860; title: Conclusion: the northern Democrats' dilemma over slavery.