Introduction: the "gloomy night of democracy": Federalist opposition to the Three-Fifths Clause -- Have these Haytians no rights: restricting trade to safeguard slavery (1805-1806) -- Indissolubly ...connected with commerce: nonimportation, southern sectionalism, and the defense of New England -- Squabbles in Madam Liberty's family: Jefferson's embargo and the causes of Federalist extremism (1807-1808) -- O grab me!: the justification for disunion (1808-1809) -- Sincere neutrality: war, moderates, and the Federalists Party's decline (1810-1820) -- Epilogue: Old Romans Federalist activism and the antislavery legacy (1820-1865).
