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: D. J. MacLeod
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 06, 1975
• | Number of Pages: 260 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521098777
• | ISBN-13: 9780521098779