{"product_id":"making-an-antislavery-nation-9780252041365","title":"Making an Antislavery Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peck has written a book that demands attention.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Civil War Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sure to interest anyone looking for a fine-grained account of pre-Civil War politics.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Graham Peck offers a sophisticated analysis of the forces that led to the Civil War, emphasizing how Abraham Lincoln disguised the wolf of radical antislavery nationalism with conservative sheep’s clothing, and how Stephen A. Douglas was gradually crushed between the upper millstone of Southern intransigence and the nether millstone of Northern disaffection for his toleration of slavery.\"--Michael Burlingame, author of \u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] thoughtful and valuable new contribution to the unending debate about the coming of the Civil War.\" --\u003ci\u003eCivil War Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking an Antislavery Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant and important reinterpretation of the political battles between slavery and freedom from the nation’s founding to the secession crisis. In focusing on Illinois, Graham Peck brilliantly highlights the significance of the state in national politics and of Stephen Douglas as \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e pivotal figure in the rise of antislavery politics and disunion. His portrait of Douglas is unequaled in a story that is structurally and stylistically a work of immense sophistication.\"--John Stauffer, Harvard University, and author of \u003ci\u003eGiants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking an Antislavery Nation\u003c\/i\u003e elucidates overlooked or underemphasized dimensions of the shifting set of beliefs about freedom and slavery that cohered into Lincoln's ideological vision of an anti-slavery nation.\"--\u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The victory of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party was the most significant political revolution in American history. Graham A. Peck’s penetrating account of the politics of slavery in Illinois—at once a key battleground state and a microcosm of the nation as a whole—offers a powerful new interpretation of this critical moment in antebellum politics. By fusing antislavery radicalism with American nationalism, Lincoln and the Republicans overcame an increasingly proslavery northern Democratic Party. Thoroughly researched and judiciously argued, \u003ci\u003eMaking an Antislavery Nation\u003c\/i\u003e changes the way we understand the triumph of the Republicans and the origins of the Civil War.\"--Matthew Karp, Princeton University, and author of \u003ci\u003eThis Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Absolutely tremendous!\"--Adam I. P. Smith, Senior Lecturer, University College London\u003cbr\u003e \"Peck has provided a useful and interesting framework for understanding antislavery politics in Illinois and in the nation.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Annals of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: An Inheritance of Slavery 13\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Nation’s Conflict over Slavery in Miniature:\u003cbr\u003e Illinois, 1818–1824 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Democrats, Whigs, and Party Conflict, 1825–1842 34\u003cbr\u003e 3. Manifest Destiny, Slavery, and the Rupture\u003cbr\u003e of the Democratic Party, 1843–1847 54\u003cbr\u003e 4. Advocates for an Antislavery Nation, 1837–1848 72\u003cbr\u003e 5. Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern Democratic Origins\u003cbr\u003e of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849–1854 97\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Collapse of the Douglas Democracy, 1854–1860 123\u003cbr\u003e 7. Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of\u003cbr\u003e an Antislavery Nationalism, 1854–1860 156\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Northern Democrats’ Dilemma\u003cbr\u003e over Slavery 184\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 195\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 199\u003cbr\u003e Notes 205\u003cbr\u003e Index 253","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400441569623,"sku":"9780252041365","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252041365.jpg?v=1730470690","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-an-antislavery-nation-9780252041365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}