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Slave Nation

How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
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Slave Nation
Slave Nation
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ISBN
9781402204005
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Taal
Engels
Uitgeverij
Sourcebooks, Inc
Jaar van uitgifte
2005
Aantal pagina's
336

Waar gaat het over?

''A radical, well-informed, and highly original reinterpretation of the place of slavery in the American War of Independence.''-David Brion Davis, Yale University In 1772, the High Court in London brought about the conditions that would end slavery in England by freeing a black slave from Virginia named Somerset. This decision began a key facet of independence. Slave Nation is a fascinating account of the role slavery played in the drawing of the United States Constitution and in shaping the United States. At the Constitutional Convention, the South feared that the Northern states would leave the Convention over the issue of slavery. In a compromise, the Southern states agreed to slavery's prohibition north of the Ohio River, resulting in the Northwest Ordinance. This early national division would continue to escalate, eventually only reaching resolution through the Civil War.
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