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Article: Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2008
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Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. By Matthew Mason. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 352. $45.00.)
Nearly thirty years ago, as a nascent historian, this reviewer absorbed every word of William J. Cooper's work, The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856. Cooper's thesis, that slavery dominated Southern antebellum politics, Democrat and Whig alike, continues to influence this reviewer's thinking. So it was with great interest that he read Matthew Mason's Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, wondering if it was something of a prequel to Cooper.
Mason challenges the notion ...