Slavery, Race and the American Revolution

This book analyses the impact of American Revolutionary ideology upon conceptions of the place of slavery in American society. The ambivalence involved in a libertarian revolution occurring in a slave society was as obvious to eighteenth-century Americans as it is to twentieth-century historians yet the obvious sincerity of Southern Republicanism and the persistence of slavery have presented a paradox with which historians have hardly come to terms.
Author: MacLeod, Duncan J.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0521098777

ISBN-13: 9780521098779