Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War /

In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huston, James L., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
Temas:
1861-1865
Slavery > Economic aspects > United States > History.
Right of property > United States > History.
Droit de propriété > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY.
Economics
Right of property
Slavery > Economic aspects
War > Causes
Slavernij.
Eigendomsrecht.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
Economische aspecten.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Economic aspects.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect économique.
United States
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Slavery, property rights, and the American Revolution
  • The origins of slaveholder aggressiveness
  • Free labor and the competition of slaves
  • The antislavery debate over property rights
  • The constitutionality of slavery prohibition in the territories
  • The politics of Southern upheaval, 1846-1853
  • The Northern realignment, 1854-1860.

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