Preface to the Paperback Edition

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Paperback Edition vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Slavery, Property, and Emancipation in Revolutionary America 25
7. 2 The Federal Convention and the Curse of Heaven 58
8. 3 Slavery, Antislavery, and the Struggle for Ratification 115
9. 4 To the Missouri Crisis 152
10. 5 Antislavery, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War 206
11. Epilogue 263
12. Notes 271
13. Index 337