Slavery and the democratic conscience : political life in Jeffersonian America

Slavery and the democratic conscience : political life in Jeffersonian America /

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 democ...

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Main Author: Riley, Padraig (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
Federal Party (U.S.) > History.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1792-1828) > History.
Political parties > United States > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government > 1817-1825.
United States > Politics and government > 1809-1817.
United States > Politics and government > 1789-1809.
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