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by Don E. Fehrenbacher; Ward M. McAfee (Editor)

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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."

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DURING THE SPRING of 1828, Congress passed the "tariff of abominations," thereby adding to the excitement and confusion of the presidential contest between the incumbent John Quincy Adams and his opponent, Andrew Jackson.

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  • Title The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
  • Author Don E. Fehrenbacher; Ward M. McAfee (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-12-19
  • ISBN 9780195158052 / 0195158059
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 5.94 x 1.28 in (23.06 x 15.09 x 3.25 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Dewey Decimal Code 326.097

About the author

The late Don E. Fehrenbacher died in 1997. He was the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University. His book The Dred Scott Case won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, and he edited and completed David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. He was awarded the Lincoln Prize for lifetime achievement in 1997.

Ward M. McAfee is Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino. One of Fehrenbacher's former students, he has published in a variety of fields, including the Civil War and Reconstruction, world religions, and California history. He lives in Upland, California.

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