The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

This volume analyzes how the government of the United States effectively became an agent of the slaveholding interest, despite the fact that the nation had been founded upon ideals potentially hostile to the institution of slavery. The anomaly of a "slaveholding republic" began to unravel with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first president not wholly obedient to that interest. Written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Don Fehrenbacher, this book explores the United States government's position on slavery from the writing of the Constitution through the end of the Civil War.

Don E. Fehrenbacher's final book, ably completed and edited by his former student Ward M. McAfee, examines the U.S. government's relations with slavery from the founding of the republic through the Civil War ... because of its clear thesis, broad view, and lively narration, The Slaveholding Republic will surely make an influential contribution to the historiography of American politics and slavery. And, like all good books, it raises important questions that deserve further examination. (American Nineteenth Century History)

The Slaveholding Republic not only advances our knowledge of the critical relationships of slavery to the American government, placing it in perspective and explaining its meaning, but it also helps frame contemporary debates over the perennial question about the relative power of the nation and the locality. One could hardly ask for more. (Ira Berlin, The Washington Post)

A major historian addresses a major theme in the late Don Fehrenbacher's The Slaveholding Republic. Rigorously based on the original sources, this book accurately and soberly relates the shameful story of how the federal government treated human beings as property. (Daniel Walker Howe, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University)

Engagingly written, thoughtfully conceived, and filled with flashes of insight. Here is a compelling contribution to the ongoing debate about the nation's ends and means, its better angels, and its fundamental law. (Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of "A People's Contest": The Union and the Civil War)