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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. Written by late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Don Fehrenbacher, this book explores the United States government's position on slavery from the writing of the constitution through the end of the Civil War.
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Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal law). Nevertheless, he also reveals that U.S. policy abroad and in the territories was consistently proslavery. Fehrenbacher makes clear why Lincoln's election was such a shock to the South and shows how Lincoln's approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by modern standards, quickly evolved into a "Republican revolution" that ended the anomaly of the United States as a "slaveholding republic."
"Advances our knowledge of the critical relationships of slavery to the American government, placing it in perspective and explaining its meaning.... One could hardly ask for more."--Ira Berlin, The Washington Post
Contents
Preface ; I. Introduction ; II. Slavery and the Founding of the Republic ; III. Slavery in the National Capital ; IV. Slavery in American Foreign Relations ; V. The African Slave Trade, 1789-1842 ; VI. The African Slave Trade, 1842-1862 ; VII. The Fugitive Slave Problem to 1850 ; VIII. The Fugitive Slave Problem , 1850-1864 ; IX. Slavery in the Territories ; X. The Republican Revolution ; XI. Conclusion
