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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Prelude: an inheritance of slavery -- The nation's conflict over slavery in miniature: Illinois, 1818-1824 -- Democrats, Whigs, and party conflict, 1825-1842 -- Manifest Destiny, slavery, and the rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843-1847 -- Advocates for an antislavery nation, 1837-1848 -- Stephen A. Douglas and the northern democratic origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849-1854 -- The collapse of the Douglas democracy, 1854-1860 -- Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of an antislavery nationalism, 1854-1860 -- Conclusion: the northern Democrats' dilemma over slavery. |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription History Reference Center Collection |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
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Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861. (OCoLC)fst01716502
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. (OCoLC)fst00030184
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Slavery -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01120480
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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1783-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Peck, Graham A., 1969- Making an antislavery nation. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017 9780252041365 (DLC) 2017016680 |
| ISBN |
9780252099960 (ebook) |
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0252099966 |
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9780252041365 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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