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Southern Outcast : Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South /

Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper-the first...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Brown, David, 1968 April 25-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • In the forks of the Yadkin, 1829-1850
  • To the land of gold, 1851-1854
  • Negotiating race in a "human menagerie"
  • Pushed to the limits : writing The impending crisis of the South, 1854-1857
  • The logical outcome of the nonslaveholders' philosophy?
  • Blowing up a storm, 1857-1859
  • Impending crisis : the speakership contest and the coming of the Civil War, 1859-1860
  • American spokesman in Buenos Aires : consul, 1861-1866
  • A rage for whiteness, 1867-1871
  • Railway to the moon, 1871-1909.