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A House Divided: Slavery and American Politics from the Constitution to the Civil War Hardcover
Slavery is one of the central, most enduringly significant facts of U.S. history. It loomed like a dark cloud over the country’s birth at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and shaped the most important nodes of American history before the Civil War. Even today, the country continues to debate its past as it relates to slavery, and the political and geographic contours of human bondage endure into the twenty-first century.
In a deeply researched, wide-ranging book, retired journalist Ben McNitt tells the story of how slavery shaped American politics—and indeed the American story—from the Founding until the Civil War. McNitt’s sharp narrative covers people and events that still resonate: Thomas Jefferson, John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, the slave revolts of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Brown and Harpers Ferry, fire-eating secessionists, and the rise of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. No other single work covers this topic as comprehensively and accessibly.
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Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origin & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence
American democracy is under authoritarian attack. Where Patriots Rally narrates the origin and history of our founding principles so that you may be better able and more inclined to defend them from that attack. As Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer of the American Revolution, put it, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” To be worthy of our democracy we must be willing to fight for its survival.
The object of Where Patriots Rally’s inquiry is a set of ideas — the principles written into the Declaration of Independence — the self-evident truths of universal equality based on inalienable natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under governance by consent of the governed.
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A House Divided: Slavery and American Politics from the Constitution to the Civil War
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