Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 / Patrick Rael

Contents: A house divided -- The Slave Power -- The Age of Revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United States -- The Early Republic. A house dividing : Atlantic slavery and abolition in the era of the early republic ; To become a great nation : caste and resistance in the age of emancipations -- The Age of Immediatism. MInds long set on freedom : rebellion, metropolitan abolition, and sectional conflict ; Ere the storm come forth : antislavery militance and the collapse of party politics -- The Civil War and Reconstruction. This terrible war : secession, civil war, and emancipation ; One hundred years : reconstruction ; What peace among the whites brought

Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

2015

xix, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

88 years, the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865