Slavery and the Democratic Conscience
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Slavery and the Democratic Conscience explains how democratic subjects confronted and came to terms with slaveholder power in the early American Republic. Slavery was not an exception to the rise of American democracy, Padraig Riley argues, but was instead central to the formation of democratic institutions and ideals.
- Author: Padraig Riley
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Published: 2016-01-08
- Pages: 328