Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The “Gloomy Night of Democracy:” Federalist
Opposition to the Three-Fifths Clause
1 “Have these Haytians no rights:” Restricting Trade to Safeguard
Slavery (1805–1806)
2 “Indissolubly Connected with Commerce:” Nonimportation, Southern
Sectionalism, and the Defense of New England
3 “Squabbles in Madam Liberty’s Family:” Jefferson’s Embargo and
the Causes of Federalist Extremism (1807–1808)
4 “O Grab Me!” The Justification for Disunion (1808–1809)
5 “Sincere Neutrality:” War, Moderates, and the Federalists Party’s
Decline (1810–1820)
Epilogue: Old Romans—Federalist Activism and the Antislavery Legacy
(1820–1865)
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Dinah Mayo-Bobee is assistant professor in the Department of History at East Tennessee State University.
Historian Mayo-Bobee (East Tennessee State Univ.) has written a
thorough study of the New England Federalists in the early 19th
century. Closely examining both the ideologies and tactics of
congressional Federalists, the author makes several significant
contributions to understanding Jeffersonianism and its discontents.
With the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1801,
the Federalists became an opposition party for the first time
(confined largely to New England) and developed a strongly
sectional ideology excoriating Jeffersonian stances on slavery and
commerce. Mayo-Bobee adds to the conventional story of this
opposition by explaining how the Federalists’ commercialist creed
took shape in their opposition to the Jeffersonian embargo on the
newly independent Haiti. Tying the defense of commerce to their
critique of what they would later call “the Slave Power,” New
England Federalists’ opposition to the Jeffersonian Republicans
became stronger and more coherent than scholars have traditionally
allowed. The concluding chapter makes a strong connection between
New England Federalists and the subsequent abolitionist critique of
the slave South. Throughout, Mayo-Bobee’s analysis is grounded in
solid archival research. Students of the early American republic
will read it with interest and profit. Summing Up: Highly
recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
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