| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. By Matthew Mason. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 339 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3049-9.)

American historians typically portray the slavery controversy as having two phases: an early, moderate phase involving struggles over the slavery clauses in the U.S. Constitution, emancipation in the northern states, and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and a later, more extreme phase that culminated in the Civil War. The period between the phases, roughly 1808–1830, is often seen as a lull in the controversy—a lull briefly interrupted by the Missouri crisis of 1819–1821.

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