John Craig Hammond is Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University Calumet.
Hammond has proven himself to be an important figure in an emerging
new wave of scholarship on the critical early years of slavery and
its expansion in the United States... Hammond's discussion is sure
to add to the ongoing debate about how to understand the legacy of
slavery in the United States.--Glenn Reynolds, Mount Saint Mary
College
Hammond's well-written monograph should certainly be read by anyone
interested in slavery in the territories.--Nicole Etcheson,
Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History, Ball State
University
Scholarship on American slavery and politics has traditionally
turned either to the revolutionary and constitutional era, or to
the antebellum and Civil War period. But what happened in between?
An awful lot, says John Craig Hammond in this fine
monograph.--Francois Furstenberg, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
Chair in American Studies, University of Montreal
This argument is a valuable addition to the historiography of early
national state formation in the United States... [a] careful
delineation of the emergent boundary between slavery and freedom in
the western United States.--Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
Why did the young American republic, committed as it was to freedom
and equality, fail to outlaw slavery in its western territories?
John Craig Hammond addresses this perennial question in his
well-written, carefully argued book.--James Simeon "Journal of
American History "
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