Many prime historians have argued that the structure of the us used to be a proslavery rfile. yet in The Slaveholding Republic, one in all America's most outstanding historians refutes this declare in a landmark background that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Fehrenbacher exhibits that the structure itself was once roughly impartial at the factor of slavery and that, within the antebellum interval, the concept that the structure secure slavery used to be hotly debated (many Northerners could concede in simple terms that slavery used to be safe by way of country legislations, now not via federal law). however, he additionally finds that U.S. coverage out of the country and within the territories was once continuously proslavery. Fehrenbacher makes transparent why Lincoln's election was once one of these surprise to the South and exhibits how Lincoln's method of emancipation, which turns out exceptionally wary by way of glossy criteria, quick developed right into a "Republican revolution" that ended the paradox of the U.S. as a "slaveholding republic."
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