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1. Race and revolution

   Nash, Gary B.

   1st ed. - Madison : Madison House, 1990.

   The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Reversing the conventional view that blames slavery on the South's social and economic structures, Nash stresses the role of the northern states in the failure to abolish slavery.Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact, but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century America.

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2. Two anti-slavery sermons, delivered in 1853 and 1854

   Sanders, William Davis, 1821-1897

   Washington, 1964.

3. Powder keg; Northern opposition to the antislavery movement, 1831-1840

   Ratner, Lorman

   New York, Basic Books [1968]

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