Slavery and the Democratic Conscience

Padraig Riley

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016

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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.

ISBN-13
9780812247497
ISBN-10
0812247493
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-01-08
Pages
328
Dimensions
236x162x27
Weight
606