Title
New England Federalists: Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America
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2017
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Introduction: the "gloomy night of democracy": Federalist opposition to the Three-Fifths Clause -- 1. "Have these Haytians no rights?": restricting maritime commerce to safeguard slavery (1805-1806) -- 2. "Indissolubly connected with commerce": nonimportation, southern sectionalism, and the defense of New England -- 3. "Squabbles in Madam Liberty's family": Jefferson's embargo and the causes of Federalist extremism (1807-1808) -- 4. "O grab me!": the justification for disunion (1808-1809) -- 5. "Sincere neutrality": war, moderates, and the Federalists Party's decline (1810-1820) -- Epilogue: Old Romans: Federalist activism and the antislavery legacy (1820-1865).
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Mayo-Bobee, Dinah. (Author). 2017. New England Federalists: Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN: 9781611479850