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Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic Hardcover – August 11, 2000

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During the 1820s, Illinois witnessed one of the earliest and most important battles between slavery and antislavery forces in the new American republic—one that unleashed riots, arson, and mob violence across the state. In this deeply researched and finely argued book, James Simeone contends that the contest over slavery in Illinois prefigured the course of national politics up to the Civil War, revealing the complexity of the slave problem in the early republic.

In attempting to bring slavery to a free state, white migrants from southern states hoped to create a Bottomland Republic of free and equal white yeoman farmers who could own slaves on the basis of "popular sovereignty." Abolitionists thus found themselves allied with the governing class of "aristocrats" against the upstart, proslavery migrants. The struggle permanently changed the state's political culture and foreshadowed the Democratic-Whig cleavage in antebellum politics by posing questions of regional and sectional identity, of the relation between republicanism and the market, and of the role of religion in public life.

Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois reveals the paradoxes within the quest for a democracy that also fostered slavery. Placing early Illinois politics in the context of the national politics of the Jacksonian era, it will appeal to readers interested in the political development of the early republic and the midwestern frontier, the roles of race and class in constructing political identity, and the nature of liberal democracy in nineteenth-century America.

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"An admirable contribution to our evolving understanding of American political development."―The Journal of American History

"A major contribution to the thorny subject of democracy and slavery in frontier Illinois."―Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

"Provides bracing and sophisticated understandings of complex, unstably dynamic, and often paradoxical politics and politicized issues in early Illinois."―American Historical Review

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James Simeone is Associate Professor of Political Science at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Northern Illinois University Press; 1st edition (August 11, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 299 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 087580263X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0875802633
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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This is a well-written book about the early days of Illinois history. So much Illinois history focuses on the Civil War to modern times, but this book explains antebellum Illinois. I have been researching the years before the Civil War since the issue of slavery was a contentious part of American history long before the Civil War. I heard about this book in a bibliography and I was interested because I am a multi-generational Illinoisan. My parents and my grandparents, and even a number of my great-grandparents were life-long Illinois residents. My paternal grandparents were from southern Illinois. I grew-up near Chicago, but I had many relatives in the southern part of the state and visited there often.

The state of Illinois is really two worlds, in that Southern Illinois is very different culturally than northern Illinois. This was more obvious in the past. I knew that there were southern sympathies in pre-Civil War Illinois, but this book explained that there was an active pro-slavery movement in the early days of the state and there was a push to make Illinois a slave state when it joined the Union in 1818. This book explains the culture and the politics that helped shape Illinois and is also representative of the border areas of many states in antebellum America. If you love American history you will like this book.

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