At the Precipice : Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis /

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Bowman explores the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the secession period. He examines the lives and thoughts of key figures and provides an especially vivid glimpse into what less famous men and women in both s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bowman, Shearer Davis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
War > Causes.
Secession.
Politics and government
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY.
Secession > États-Unis > Histoire.
Secession > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1849-1861.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States > Politics and government > 1849-1861.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Slaveholders and slaves, state's rights and revolution
  • Honor and degradation : section, race, and gender
  • The second party system and its legacy : the careers of John Bell, John C. Breckinridge, Howell Cobb, Stephen A. Douglas, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren
  • Jefferson Davis, Horace L. Kent, and the old south
  • Abraham Lincoln, Henry Waller, and the free-labor north
  • Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard and Sojourner Truth : faith, race, and gender
  • President Buchanan, the Crittenden Compromise, President Lincoln, and Fort Sumter.

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