Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780521885928
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Social history; Political Science; History - U.S; Politics/International Relations; The Americas; Labor; United States - 19th Century; United States - Antebellum Era; History / United States / 19th Century; History & Theory - General
First sentence: At the start of 1819 Thomas Jefferson, patron saint of American Democracy, remarked that he now had a greater interest in the ancient than in the modern world.