TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Cleve,George
TI  - A slaveholders' union: slavery, politics, and the constitution in the early American Republic 
SN  - 9780226846682 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - 002 E 446 V222s 2010
U1  - 973.7/1 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Esclavitud
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Siglos XVIII
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - 1783-1815
KW  - Revolución, 1775-1783
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-378) and index; Slavery in the American Revolution -- From Empire to Confederation -- Abolition, slavery reform, and the climate of opinion -- The making of the slaveholders' constitution -- Property and republican representation -- Sectional bargaining and moral union -- Slavery in the new nation -- From Constitution to Republican empire -- The Missouri compact and the rule of law -- Slavery and the dismal fate of Madisonian politics
ER  -