Author: Padraig Riley
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.