This book analyses the impact of American Revolutionary ideology upon conceptions of the place of slavery in American society. The ambivalence involved in a libertarian revolution occurring in a slave society was as obvious to eighteenth-century Americans as it is to twentieth-century historians yet the obvious sincerity of Southern Republicanism and the persistence of slavery have presented a paradox with which historians have hardly come to terms.
This book analyses the impact of American Revolutionary ideology upon conceptions of the place of slavery in American society.Book InformationISBN 9780521098779
Author Duncan J. MacLeodFormat Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 400g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 17mm