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Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom

Title: Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom / Graham A. Peck.
Author: Peck, Graham A., 1969-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description

264 pages : maps; 24 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prelude: an inheritance of slavery -- The nation's conflict over slavery in miniature: Illinois, 1818-1824 -- Democrats, Whigs, and party conflict, 1825-1842 -- Manifest Destiny, slavery, and the rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843-1847 -- Advocates for an antislavery nation, 1837-1848 -- Stephen A. Douglas and the northern democratic origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849-1854 -- The collapse of the Douglas democracy, 1854-1860 -- Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of an antislavery nationalism, 1854-1860 -- Conclusion: the northern Democrats' dilemma over slavery.

Call Number

Sc E 17-1400

ISBN

9780252041365
0252041364

LCCN

2017016680

OCLC

982185033

Author

Peck, Graham A., 1969- author.

Title

Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom / Graham A. Peck.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1783-1899

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-1400

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