American Nineteenth Century History, Volume 21, Issue 2 (2020)

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“The mildest form ever known upon earth?”: reconsidering racial slavery in Seminole society, 1800–1835
Edward Mair
Pages: 109-128
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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“What the present crisis will show”: the Panic of 1857 as a crisis of American labor
Eric M. Sears
Pages: 129-147
Published online: 22 Jul 2020
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Anti-Jacksonian democratization: the first national political party conventions
Laura Ellyn Smith
Pages: 149-169
Published online: 19 Aug 2020
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Abraham Lincoln’s evolving appreciation of the declaration of independence
Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler
Pages: 171-186
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
by Jeanne E. Abrams, New York: New York University Press, 2018, Pp. 328, $75.00 (hbk), $18.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781479886531, ISBN 9781479890507
Sara Georgini
Pages: 187-188
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
by Sara Georgini, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, Pp. 284, $34.95 (hbk), $21.59 (e-book), ISBN 9780190882587, ISBN 9780190882594
Rachel Williams
Pages: 188-190
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Laid Waste!: The Culture of Exploitation in Early America
by John Lauritz Larson, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, Pp. 312, $39.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780812251845
Kaden M. Jelsing
Pages: 190-191
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji
by Nancy Shoemaker, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019, Pp. 352, $45.00 (hbk), $21.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781501740343, ISBN 9781501740367
Tom Smith
Pages: 191-193
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865
by William L. Andrews, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, Pp. 389, £22.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780190908386
Andrea H. Livesey
Pages: 193-194
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
by Kellie Carter Jackson, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, Pp. 216, $34.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780812251159
Kevin Vrevich
Pages: 195-196
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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In Union There is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation
by Andrew Heath, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, Pp. 296, $49.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780812251111
J. Matthew Gallman
Pages: 196-197
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South
by Marie S. Molloy, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2018, Pp. 240, $39.99 (hbk), $39.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781611178708, ISBN 9781611178715
Lisa Tendrich Frank
Pages: 198-199
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers
by James J. Broomall, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, Pp. 240, $90.00 (hbk), $29.95 (pbk), $22.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781469651989, ISBN 9781469649757, ISBN 9781469649764
Mary A. DeCredico
Pages: 199-200
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy
by Enrico Dal Lago, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018, Pp. 465, $59.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781107038424
Paola Gemme
Pages: 200-202
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle Over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
by Gregory P. Downs, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, Pp. 232, $27.95 (hbk), ISBN 9781469652733
Michael A. Hill
Pages: 202-204
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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United States Reconstruction Across the Americas
edited by William A. Link, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019, Pp. 125, $34.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780813056418
Duncan A. Campbell
Pages: 204-205
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France
by Emily C. Burns, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018, Pp. 248, $45.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780806160030
Joseph Ross
Pages: 205-207
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
by Thomas J. Brown, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, Pp. 384, $90.00 (hbk), $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781469653730, ISBN 9781469653747
Susan-Mary Grant
Pages: 207-208
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Books Reviewed
Page: 209
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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