Disunion! the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10310785 |
Table of Contents:
- The language of terrifying prophecy : disunion debates in the early republic
- We claim our rights : the advent of abolitionism
- Ruinous tendencies : the anti-abolition backlash
- The idea will become familiar : disunion in the era of mass party politics
- Oh for a man who is a man : debating slavery's expansion
- That is revolution! : the crisis of 1850
- Beneath the iron heel : fugitive slaves and bleeding Kansas
- To consummate its boldest designs : the slave power confronts the republicans
- War to the knife : images of the coming fight
- Epilogue: The Rubicon is passed : the war and beyond.