Making an Antislavery Nation

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252085567

Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom

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By Graham A. Peck
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Maps ix
Introduction 1
Prelude: An Inheritance of Slavery 13
1. The Nation’s Conflict over Slavery in Miniature:
Illinois, 1818–1824 17
2. Democrats, Whigs, and Party Conflict, 1825–1842 34
3. Manifest Destiny, Slavery, and the Rupture
of the Democratic Party, 1843–1847 54
4. Advocates for an Antislavery Nation, 1837–1848 72
5. Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern Democratic Origins
of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849–1854 97
6. The Collapse of the Douglas Democracy, 1854–1860 123
7. Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of
an Antislavery Nationalism, 1854–1860 156
Conclusion: The Northern Democrats’ Dilemma
over Slavery 184
Acknowledgments 195
Appendix 199
Notes 205
Index 253

"Absolutely tremendous!"--Adam I. P. Smith, Senior Lecturer, University College London
"Peck has provided a useful and interesting framework for understanding antislavery politics in Illinois and in the nation."--The Annals of Iowa

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