Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois

ISBN-13: 9780875802633 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 299 str.

James Simeone

Opis

In the 1820s, Illinois saw an early battle between slavery and abolitionism. This text explores the political and social movement to bring slavery to Illinois - a campaign that unleashed riots across the state. It reveals the paradoxes in a quest for democracy that also fostered slavery.