Cheryl Janifer Laroche
 
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“The Balance Principle Revisted”: Slavery, Freedom, and the Formation of the Nation
Cheryl Janifer Laroche
Description: Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
In this essay, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche takes a long view of nationhood and African-American history, arguing that the entire United States is a landscape formed by slavery—if not through the actual handwork of enslaved workers, as a result of the machinations of Congress and state lawmakers as they sought to negotiate the slavery question. In her own words, “With few...
Author
Cheryl Janifer Laroche
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2010 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.233-262
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00291.13
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22222
Chapter subject tags:Slavery--United States--HistorySlavery--United States--Legal status of slaves in free statesStatehood (American politics)--Law and legislationScott, Dred, 1809-1858United States. Kansas-Nebraska Act