text Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865
- Summary
- 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... Read more
- 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 th... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press 2015
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 306.3 RAE in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 306.3 RAE in Adult Non-fiction | Available |