Hammond (history, Purdue U. Calumet) shifts his study of early American slavery away from political centers such as Philadelphia and Washington and into the west of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mississipp
The story of slavery in the US has tended to focus on the crucial decades 1831-1861, which witnessed the rise of the abolitionist movement, various acts of rebellion, and the Civil War. Here historian
The fifteen original essays in this collection examine the politics of slavery and antislavery in the traditionally overlooked period between the 1770s and the 1840s, challenging the standard narrativ
