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New England Federalists - Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America (Paperback)
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New England Federalists - Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America (Paperback)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in American History and Culture
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Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks
on U.S. neutral trade in 1805, this book looks at crucial
developments in national politics, public policy, and foreign
relations from the perspective of New England Federalists. Through
its focus on the partisan climate in Congress that appeared to
influence federal statutes, New England Federalists: Widening the
Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America sets out to explain, in
their own words, why Federalists, especially those often deemed
extreme or radical by contemporaries and historians alike,
escalated a campaign to repeal the Constitution's three-fifths
clause (which included slaves in the calculation for congressional
representation and votes in the Electoral College) while
encouraging violations of federal law and advocating northern
secession from the Union. Unlike traditional interpretations of
early nineteenth-century politics that focus on Jeffersonian
political economy, this study brings the impetus for Federalist
obstructionism and sectionalism into sharp relief. Federalists who
became the sole defenders of New England's economic independence
and free labor force, later issued calls for northerners to unite
against the spread of slavery and southern control of the central
government. Along with controversies that placed sectional harmony
in jeopardy, this work links themes in Federalist opposition
rhetoric to the important antislavery arguments that would flourish
in antebellum culture and politics.
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