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Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870

Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870

Weiner, Dana Elizabeth

Paperback

Anthropology19th Century United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0875807135
ISBN13: 9780875807133
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Jan 15 2013
Pages: 325
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to eradicate southern slavery and its local influence in the contentious milieu of four new states carved out of the Northwest Territory: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. While the Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the region in 1787, in reality both it and racism continued to exert strong influence in the Old Northwest, as seen in the race-based limitations of civil liberties there. Indeed, these states comprised the central battleground over race and rights in antebellum America, in a time when race's social meaning was deeply infused into all aspects of Americans' lives, and when people struggled to establish political consensus.

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