Making an Antislavery Nation Barbara Meardon Conditions for Further Study

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and how a more accountable system might be developed

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specifically confronting racism and working to become antiracist as a group

Making an Antislavery Nation Barbara Meardon Conditions for Further StudyHow the politics and political stakes surrounding slavery transformed the country This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled to define slavery's relationship to freedom. Most Northerners supported