Table of Contents: Roots of secession

Main Author:	Link, William A.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Series:	Civil War America
Subjects:	Slaves > Political activity > 19th century. > Virginia > History African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century. > Virginia Government, Resistance to > History > 19th century. > Virginia Passive resistance > History > 19th century. > Virginia Secession > Virginia. Slavery > Political aspects > 19th century. > Virginia > History Virginia > History > 1775-1865. Virginia > Politics and government > 1775-1865. Virginia > Race relations > 19th century. > Political aspects > History United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10202594

Table of Contents:

A slave society : Virginia in the 1850s
Boastful and belligerent champions of southern institutions : slavery and politics, 1851-1854
A uniform spirit of lawlessness : the problem of runaways
A spirit of license in the guise of liberty : the survival of opposition, 1854-1856
The darkest and most perilous hours of our national existence : the deepening sectional crisis, 1856-1859
A black demon of fanaticism : Harpers Ferry and the election of 1860
To light the torch of servile insurrection : the secession crisis.