Dinah Mayo-Bobee

New England Federalists

Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, which deals with controversies in U.S. politics after 1805, engages readers in the congressional debates, statutes, diplomatic correspondence, and mariner experiences that rejuvenated a dying party, deepened sectional divisions, and precipitated discussions of New England secession.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781611479850
• ISBN-10: 1611479851
• Artikelnr.: 46607411

Autorenporträt

Dinah Mayo-Bobee

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The "Gloomy Night of Democracy:" Federalist Opposition to the
Three-Fifths Clause
1"Have these Haytians no rights:" Restricting Trade to Safeguard Slavery
(1805-1806)
2"Indissolubly Connected with Commerce:" Nonimportation, Southern
Sectionalism, and the Defense of New England
3"Squabbles in Madam Liberty's Family:" Jefferson's Embargo and the Causes
of Federalist Extremism (1807-1808)
4"O Grab Me!" The Justification for Disunion (1808-1809)
5"Sincere Neutrality:" War, Moderates, and the Federalists Party's Decline
(1810-1820)
Epilogue: Old Romans-Federalist Activism and the Antislavery Legacy
(1820-1865)
Bibliography
Index
About the Author