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1 Situating the War of 1812 in our National Narrative

2 The War of 1812 marked the end of....

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4 Source: Pictorial History of Michigan: The Early Years, George S. May, 1967

5 Source: Atlas of Michigan, ed. Lawrence M. Sommers, 1977.

6 Preservation of republicanism and Republicanism.

7 The War of 1812 served as the beginning of....

8 Commercial Conventions (1816, 1818) Rush Bagot agreement (1818). Less problematic borders.

9 By 1803: Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio By 1821: Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, and Missouri

10 14VermontMarch 4, 1791 15KentuckyJune 1, 1792 16TennesseeJune 1, 1796 17OhioMarch 1, 1803 18LouisianaApril 30, 1812 19IndianaDecember 11, 1816 20MississippiDecember 10, 1817 21IllinoisDecember 3, 1818 22AlabamaDecember 14, 1819 23MaineMarch 15, 1820 24MissouriAugust 10, 1821 25ArkansasJune 15, 1836 26MichiganJan 26, 1837 27FloridaMarch 3, 1845 28TexasDecember 29, 1845 29IowaDecember 28, 1846 30WisconsinMay 29, 1848 31CaliforniaSeptember 9, 1850

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15 Recent Books Alan Taylor, The Slave War of 1812, forthcoming. Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South, Harvard, 2007. Matthew Mason, Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, 2008. John Hammond and Mason, eds. The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation, Virginia, 2011

16 The story of freedom and slavery inverted. Bartlet Shanklyn 3,500 Chesapeake slaves “stole” themselves to British forces. Free black population restricted. The South and the federal government: a complicated relationship.

17 Spread of Plantation Slavery Spread of Cotton

18 Federalists fight back. Early Northern emancipation laws (1776- 1807) bearing fruit, even accelerated. Emancipation Acts: New York, 1817; Pennsylvania 1815; Ohio, 1817 American Colonization Society founded 1817 Growth in free black population in North Unknown artist and place, Probably New England, c. 1815-1825

19 National Debates Fugitive Slave Act of 1818—failed. Slave Trade Acts of 1819, 1820 Piracy Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821 See: Robert Forbes, The Missouri Compromise and its Aftermath, North Carolina Press, 2007.

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21 African Americans in the Navy Estimated 15 to 20% of enlisted men in U.S. navy Others on Privateers and Merchant Marine Post 1820s, tainted with “freedom.” Denmark Vesey, 1822

22 Battle to make slavery safe in the Union Negro Seamen’s Acts Nullification 1830s: anti-abolition mobs The Slave’s Friend, 1839

23 American nationalism made manifest culturally and to an extent politically, but also sews the seeds for future sectional conflict. Increased security—especially after 1819—and the expansion it allows generates concern while empowering different regions to more assuredly stake their claim to being the “true America.” Transportation Revolution and Growing national market creates more trade but also political tensions, culminates in nullification crisis War opens lands for cotton and slavery’s expansion, ensuring its vibrancy and pointing the way towards what we might see as American’s “Third Civil War,” and easily its bloodiest.


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