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slavery and the debate over the Constitution

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By the early decades of the nineteenth century, Americans wondered, if slavery had become a necessary evil - economically essential but morally reprehensible.

A Necessary Evil? is divided into seven chapters: the first establishes the background for slavery in the new nation and sets the stage for the debate while the second chapter records the arguments over slavery from the Constitutional Convention. Chapters three, four, and five turn to the New England, Middle, and Southern states respectively and present the complete record of slavery and the ratification debate in these regions.

The next chapter demonstrates the peculiar institution's newly sanctioned role in the young republic and how abolitionists sought to reverse this growing consensus. Finally, the last chapter looks at slavery from the perspective of three of the most influential Americans, Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, to show the complexity and inner turmoil that surrounded slavery.

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Madison House
Language
English
Pages
289

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index.
"Published for the Center for the Study of the American Constitution."

Published in
Madison, WI
Series
Constitutional heritage series ;, v. 2

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
326/.0973
Library of Congress
KF4545.S5 N43 1995, KF4545.S5N43 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 289 p. ;
Number of pages
289

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1277981M
Internet Archive
necessaryevilsla0000unse
ISBN 10
0945612168, 0945612338
LCCN
95009711
OCLC/WorldCat
32092358
Library Thing
1704624
Goodreads
1223867
467898

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