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John Mayfield is professor of history at samford University. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University and has taught at the University of Kentucky and the University of Baltimore. He is the author of Rehearsal for Republicanism: Free Soil and the Politics of Antislavery (1980) and The New Nation: 1800–1845 (1982), plus several articles on southern literature and intellectual history. ...

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