Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America
(Part of the Early American Studies Series)
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Democracy and slavery collided in the early American republic, nowhere more so than in the Democratic-Republican party, the political coalition that elected Thomas Jefferson president in 1800 and governed the United States into the 1820s. Joining southern slaveholders and northern advocates of democracy, the coalition facilitated a dramatic expansion of American slavery and generated ideological conflict over slaveholder power in national politics...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812247493
ISBN13:9780812247497
Release Date:January 2016
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
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