Matthew Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3749-8677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tacky's Revolt
This volume, in which Vincent Brown both compellingly narrates a Jamaican slave revolt and offers scholars a bracing new analytical frame for all slave revolts, is a major achievement. Brown makes a strong case that Tacky's Revolt, which began in April 1760 and lasted eighteen months, was “only one conflict within a larger war” against the Jamaican regime (p. 163). Moreover, Brown invites historians to analyze this and other slave insurrections a…
North American Calm, West Indian storm
A significant historiographical literature posits that Lord Mansfield’s famous decision in the 1772 Somerset case deeply threatened slaveholders throughout the British Empire. Colonial slaveholders had good reason to believe that this ruling threatened their power over their slaves, and West Indian planters and their representatives publicly expressed fear and outrage about Mansfield’s ruling and what it represented. But the bulk of North America…
A Strife of Tongues
With this volume, Stephen E. Maizlish sheds new light on a much-studied event by writing “a cultural and intellectual history” of the Compromise of 1850 (p. 1). Rather than illuminating the compromise measures, this study highlights the growing ideological divide between the North and the South that the months-long congressional debate revealed and exacerbated. Maizlish sides with historians who see the Civil War as a clash between fundamentally …
Robert G. Parkinson. The Common Cause
Robert G. Parkinson’s The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution is a richly researched, well-written book. At the heart of the argument is Parkinson’s narrative of how the leaders of the revolution accomplished the unlikely task of creating enough unity to forge a nation. His thesis operates in a welcome way at the intersection of social, political, and military history. The book’s central characters are printers who j…
Eighty-Eight Years
Journal Article Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 Get access By Patrick Rael. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. xxii, 392 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $32.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 191–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw059 Published: 01 June 2016
James J. Gigantino II. The Ragged Road to Abolition
This volume comprises part of a flurry of state-level studies of slavery and abolition in the Northern states in the early American republic. What this wave of scholarship will add up to analytically remains uncertain, but it has yielded surprising insights and details that qualify accepted wisdom. This book provides many such insights but stumbles at the level of large conclusions. James J.Gigantino’s book possesses considerable strengths both i…
A Missed Opportunity? The Founding, Postcolonial Realities, and the Abolition of Slavery
Historians who lament the United States' founding era as a missed opportunity to abolish slavery assert rather than probe the assumptions lying behind the idea that this was an avoidable failure. This article analyzes what was possible for the Founding generation in light of the stubborn social, economic, and political realities militating against sweeping emancipation in the Southern states. Those realities severely limit the usefulness of an in…
W. Caleb McDaniel. The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
This important volume brims with insights that are often delivered with unusually good turns of phrase. W. Caleb McDaniel's ambitions include painting Garrisonians on a transatlantic canvas and stretching that canvas from the 1830s through the 1860s—both unusual moves within a distinguished and voluminous historiography. He is successful on both counts, and thereby sheds considerable light on both the abolitionist movement and William Lloyd Garri…
Internationalizing the Civil War
Slavery in the American Republic
Journal Article Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861 Get access Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861. By David F. Ericson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. xii, 298 pp. $37.50.) Matthew Mason Matthew Mason Brigham Young UniversityProvo, Utah [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered
R.B. BERNSTEIN New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 Pp. 238, $17.95 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 19 533832 4 In this volume, Bernstein turns his easy style and economy of prose to synthesizing recent schol
Federalists, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Influence
Recent scholarship on the emergence of antebellum American abolitionism tends to trace this movement’s intellectual genealogy to one predominant ancestor. But close analysis of the impact of New England’s Federalists on its abolitionists highlights the complexities that too often elude this scholarship. The evidence for this influence is more often suggestive than conclusive. New England Federalists’ style and many of their concerns echoed in abo…
Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
"Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
Slavery and the Founding
One of the oldest but hottest debates over the U.S. Constitution has concerned its relationship to slavery, a dispute that goes right to the heart of the meaning of the founding of the republic. Some observers have portrayed slavery as a – even the – vital problem of the Founding, and denounced the Constitution as a proslavery document. Other scholars contend that this picture unduly elevates the importance of slavery in the contest over the Cons…
The Barbary Pirates, Islamic Slavery, and the West
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in which slavery went uncontested. The American Revolution set in motion the split …
"Nothing Is Better Calculated to Excite Divisions"
Matthew Mason, "Nothing Is Better Calculated to Excite Divisions": Federalist Agitation against Slave Representation during the War of 1812, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Dec., 2002), pp. 531-561
The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators
Matthew Mason, The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators: Great Britain, the United States, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 3, Slaveries in the Atlantic World (Jul., 2002), pp. 665-696
The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators
Matthew Mason, The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators: Great Britain, the United States, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 3, Slaveries in the Atlantic World (Jul., 2002), pp. 665-696
Tacky's Revolt
This volume, in which Vincent Brown both compellingly narrates a Jamaican slave revolt and offers scholars a bracing new analytical frame for all slave revolts, is a major achievement. Brown makes a strong case that Tacky's Revolt, which began in April 1760 and lasted eighteen months, was “only one conflict within a larger war” against the Jamaican regime (p. 163). Moreover, Brown invites historians to analyze this and other slave insurrections a…
Slavery in the American Republic
Journal Article Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861 Get access Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861. By David F. Ericson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. xii, 298 pp. $37.50.) Matthew Mason Matthew Mason Brigham Young UniversityProvo, Utah [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
Eighty-Eight Years
Journal Article Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 Get access By Patrick Rael. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. xxii, 392 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $32.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 191–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw059 Published: 01 June 2016
Slavery and the Founding
One of the oldest but hottest debates over the U.S. Constitution has concerned its relationship to slavery, a dispute that goes right to the heart of the meaning of the founding of the republic. Some observers have portrayed slavery as a – even the – vital problem of the Founding, and denounced the Constitution as a proslavery document. Other scholars contend that this picture unduly elevates the importance of slavery in the contest over the Cons…
"Nothing Is Better Calculated to Excite Divisions"
Matthew Mason, "Nothing Is Better Calculated to Excite Divisions": Federalist Agitation against Slave Representation during the War of 1812, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Dec., 2002), pp. 531-561
The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators
Matthew Mason, The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators: Great Britain, the United States, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 3, Slaveries in the Atlantic World (Jul., 2002), pp. 665-696
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
"Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
Slavery and the Founding
One of the oldest but hottest debates over the U.S. Constitution has concerned its relationship to slavery, a dispute that goes right to the heart of the meaning of the founding of the republic. Some observers have portrayed slavery as a – even the – vital problem of the Founding, and denounced the Constitution as a proslavery document. Other scholars contend that this picture unduly elevates the importance of slavery in the contest over the Cons…
The Barbary Pirates, Islamic Slavery, and the West
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in which slavery went uncontested. The American Revolution set in motion the split …
Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America
Federalists, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Influence
Recent scholarship on the emergence of antebellum American abolitionism tends to trace this movement’s intellectual genealogy to one predominant ancestor. But close analysis of the impact of New England’s Federalists on its abolitionists highlights the complexities that too often elude this scholarship. The evidence for this influence is more often suggestive than conclusive. New England Federalists’ style and many of their concerns echoed in abo…
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered
R.B. BERNSTEIN New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 Pp. 238, $17.95 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 19 533832 4 In this volume, Bernstein turns his easy style and economy of prose to synthesizing recent schol
Slavery in the American Republic
Journal Article Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861 Get access Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861. By David F. Ericson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. xii, 298 pp. $37.50.) Matthew Mason Matthew Mason Brigham Young UniversityProvo, Utah [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
Internationalizing the Civil War
A Missed Opportunity? The Founding, Postcolonial Realities, and the Abolition of Slavery
Historians who lament the United States' founding era as a missed opportunity to abolish slavery assert rather than probe the assumptions lying behind the idea that this was an avoidable failure. This article analyzes what was possible for the Founding generation in light of the stubborn social, economic, and political realities militating against sweeping emancipation in the Southern states. Those realities severely limit the usefulness of an in…
W. Caleb McDaniel. The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
This important volume brims with insights that are often delivered with unusually good turns of phrase. W. Caleb McDaniel's ambitions include painting Garrisonians on a transatlantic canvas and stretching that canvas from the 1830s through the 1860s—both unusual moves within a distinguished and voluminous historiography. He is successful on both counts, and thereby sheds considerable light on both the abolitionist movement and William Lloyd Garri…
James J. Gigantino II. The Ragged Road to Abolition
This volume comprises part of a flurry of state-level studies of slavery and abolition in the Northern states in the early American republic. What this wave of scholarship will add up to analytically remains uncertain, but it has yielded surprising insights and details that qualify accepted wisdom. This book provides many such insights but stumbles at the level of large conclusions. James J.Gigantino’s book possesses considerable strengths both i…
Eighty-Eight Years
Journal Article Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 Get access By Patrick Rael. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. xxii, 392 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $32.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 191–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw059 Published: 01 June 2016
Robert G. Parkinson. The Common Cause
Robert G. Parkinson’s The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution is a richly researched, well-written book. At the heart of the argument is Parkinson’s narrative of how the leaders of the revolution accomplished the unlikely task of creating enough unity to forge a nation. His thesis operates in a welcome way at the intersection of social, political, and military history. The book’s central characters are printers who j…
A Strife of Tongues
With this volume, Stephen E. Maizlish sheds new light on a much-studied event by writing “a cultural and intellectual history” of the Compromise of 1850 (p. 1). Rather than illuminating the compromise measures, this study highlights the growing ideological divide between the North and the South that the months-long congressional debate revealed and exacerbated. Maizlish sides with historians who see the Civil War as a clash between fundamentally …
North American Calm, West Indian storm
A significant historiographical literature posits that Lord Mansfield’s famous decision in the 1772 Somerset case deeply threatened slaveholders throughout the British Empire. Colonial slaveholders had good reason to believe that this ruling threatened their power over their slaves, and West Indian planters and their representatives publicly expressed fear and outrage about Mansfield’s ruling and what it represented. But the bulk of North America…
Tacky's Revolt
This volume, in which Vincent Brown both compellingly narrates a Jamaican slave revolt and offers scholars a bracing new analytical frame for all slave revolts, is a major achievement. Brown makes a strong case that Tacky's Revolt, which began in April 1760 and lasted eighteen months, was “only one conflict within a larger war” against the Jamaican regime (p. 163). Moreover, Brown invites historians to analyze this and other slave insurrections a…
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