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Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865

text Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865

Rael, Patrick.

Summary
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a... Read more
Contents
A house divided -- The Slave Power -- The Age of Revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United States -- The Early Republic. A house dividing : Atlantic slavery and abolition in th... Read more
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Description
xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of Georgia Press 2015
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 306.3 RAE in Adult Non-fiction Available

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