Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation

Notes on Contributors

Contributors Rachel Hope Cleves is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Victoria and the author of The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009), and of ‘‘On Writing the History of Violence,’’ Journal of the Early Republic (2004). David F. Ericson is Term Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and the author of numerous books and articles on slavery and the development of the American state, and on political theory. Among his many works are The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery (1993); The Debate over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America (2001); and numerous articles in the Journal of Southern History and in Studies in American Political Development. He is currently completing a book manuscript, ‘‘The Ghost behind the Machine: Slavery and the American State, 1791–1861,’’ which is under contract. John Craig Hammond is Assistant Professor of History at Penn State University, New Kensington, and the author of Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West (2007), and of articles in the Journal of the Early Republic and Nineteenth-Century American History. Matthew Mason is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the author of Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic (2006), as well as articles in such journals as the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, the New England Quarterly, and American Nineteenth Century History. Richard Newman is Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers (2008), and The Transformation of American Abolition: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (2002), as 306 Contributors well as articles in journals such as the William and Mary Quarterly and the Journal of the Early Republic. James Oakes is Graduate Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of numerous books and essays on the politics of slavery. He most recently authored The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglas , Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007). Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia and has edited and authored numerous books and articles on Thomas Jefferson and the early American republic. His most recent authored work is The Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2007). Robert G. Parkinson is Assistant Professor of History at Shepherd University . He is currently completing his book manuscript ‘‘The Common Cause: Race, Nation, and the Consequences of Unity in the American Revolution .’’ He is the author of articles in the William and Mary Quarterly and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Donald J. Ratcliffe is Postholder at the University of Oxford and the author of numerous books and articles on politics in the early republic. Among his works is an essay ‘‘The Crisis of Commercialization: National Political Alignments and the Market Revolution, 1819–1844,’’ published in The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions , 1800–1880, edited by Melvin Stokes and Stephen Conway (1996), and articles in American Nineteenth Century History and the Journal of the Early Republic. Padraig Riley is Assistant Professor of History at Dalhousie University and is currently completing his book manuscript tentatively titled ‘‘Northern Democracy and Southern Slavery: Politics in the Age of Jefferson, 1800– 1828.’’ He is the author of ‘‘Clark Kerr: From the Industrial to the Knowledge Economy,’’ in American Capitalism: Social Theory and Capitalist Reality in the American Century, edited by Nelson Lichtenstein (2006). Edward B. Rugemer, Assistant Professor of History at Yale University, is the author of The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (2008), and ‘‘The Southern Response to British Aboli- Contributors 307 tionism: The Maturation of Proslavery Apologetics,’’ Journal of Southern History, (2004). Brian Schoen is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University and the author of The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the United States Civil War (2009). His essay ‘‘Alternatives to Dependence: The Lower South’s Antebellum Pursuit of Sectional Development through Global Interdependence’’ appeared in Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie (2005), and he has also published in the Journal of the Early Republic. Andrew Shankman is Associate Professor...