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