Slavery and the Democratic Conscience

Political Life in Jeffersonian America

(Author) Padraig Riley
Format: HardCover
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Slavery and the Democratic Conscience explains how democratic subjects confronted and came to terms with slaveholder power in the early American Republic. Slavery was not an exception to the rise of American democracy, Padraig Riley argues, but was instead central to the formation of democratic institutions and ideals.

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Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format:
HardCover
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780812247497
Publish year:
2016
Publish date:
Jan. 8, 2016

Padraig Riley

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