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Eighty-Eight Years, The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865, Patrick Rael

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Eighty-Eight Years

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Patrick Rael

Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865

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 protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide. Rael immerses readers in the mix of social, geographic, economic, and political factors that

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE: A House Divided; INTRODUCTION: The Slave Power; SECTION 1. THE AGE OF REVOLUTION; CHAPTER 1: Impious Prayers: Slavery and the Revolution; CHAPTER 2: Half Slave and Half Free: The Founding of the United States; SECTION 2. THE EARLY REPUBLIC; CHAPTER 3: A House Dividing: Atlantic Slavery and Abolition in the Era of the Early Republic; CHAPTER 4: To Become a Great Nation: Caste and Resistance in the Age of Emancipations; SECTION 3. THE AGE OF IMMEDIATISMCHAPTER 5: Minds Long Set on Freedom: Rebellion, Metropolitan Abolition, and Sectional ConflictCHAPTER 6: Ere the Storm Come Forth: Antislavery Militance and the Collapse of Party Politics; SECTION 4. THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION; CHAPTER 7: This Terrible War: Secession, Civil War, and Emancipation; CHAPTER 8: One Hundred Years: Reconstruction; CONCLUSION: What Peace among the Whites Brought; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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