Contesting slavery: the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation

Slavery, sectionalism, and politics in the early American republic / John Craig Hammond, Matthew Mason

Necessary but not sufficient : revolutionary ideology and antislavery action in the early republic / Matthew Mason

Early free-labor thought and the contest over slavery in the early Republic / Eva Sheppard Wolf

"Manifest signs of passion" : the first federal congress, antislavery, and legacies of the Revolutionary War / Robert G. Parkinson

"Good communications corrects bad manners" : the Banneker-Jefferson dialogue and the project of white uplift / Richard Newman

Caribbean slave revolts and the origins of the gag rule : a contest between abolitionism and democracy, 1797-1835 / Edward B. Rugemer

Founding a slaveholders' union, 1770-1797 / George William Van Cleve

"Uncontrollable necessity" : the local politics, geopolitics, and sectional politics of slavery expansion / John Craig Hammond

Positive goods and necessary evils : commerce, security, and slavery in the lower south, 1787-1837 / Brian Schoen

Slave smugglers, slave catchers, and slave rebels : slavery and American state development, 1787-1842 / David F. Ericson

"Hurtful to the state" : the political morality of Federalist antislavery / Rachel Hope Cleves

Slavery and the problem of democracy in Jeffersonian America / Padraig Riley

Neither infinite wretchedness nor positive good : Mathew Carey and Henry Clay on political economy and slavery during the long 1820s / Andrew Shankman

The decline of antislavery politics, 1815-1840 / Donald J. Ratcliffe

Conflict vs. racial consensus in the story of antislavery politics / James Oakes.