Abstract

Part 1 Slavery and freedom, loss and gain: a collision of histories Braudel's American mosaic colonial revolts, American revolution the revolution and the republic. Part 2 What, then, were these Americans?: mountains, valleys, and plains capital cities with iron interlaced citizens, subjects, and slaves - the republican mosaic. Part 3 A house burst asunder: the crisis of triumphant democracy engaged in a great civil war in one, many. Coda: the vexed, unanswered question.

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