Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom /

Peck, Graham A., 1969-

Making an antislavery nation : Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom / Graham A. Peck. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Douglas, Stephen A. 1813-1861.
Douglas, Stephen A. 1813-1861.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.


1783-1899


Slavery--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
HISTORY--State & Local--Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)--United States
Antislavery movements.
Politics and government.
Slavery--Political aspects.


United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement--1783-1865.
United States.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

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