Simon J. Gilhooley

Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution (eBook, PDF)

Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Locates the origins of the modern sense of a Founder''s Constitution in Antebellum debates over slavery in the nation''s capital.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108857222
• Artikelnr.: 70911404

Autorenporträt

Simon J. Gilhooley is Assistant Professor, Political Studies and American Studies, Bard College, New York. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Constitutional Imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis
2. The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s
3. Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s
4. The Slaveholding South and the Constitutionalization of Slavery
5. Theories of the Federal Compact in the 1830s
6. Slavery, The District of Columbia, and the Constitution
7. The Congressional Crisis of 1836
8: The Compact and the Election of 1836
9. The Afterlife of the Compact of 1836
Conclusion.