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Article: Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- November 1, 2006
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Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution. By Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen. Introduction by Eleanor Holmes Norton. (Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 336. $24.95, ISBN 1-4022-0400-0.)
In a series of recent studies, political historians have been exploring the myriad ways in which concerns for the protection of slavery shaped American political institutions, from the Constitution itself to the political parties, the origin of local police forces, and the shape of tax regimes. Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution makes a more ambitious claim that ...