Road to Disunion, Volume I : Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854.

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, ""a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream."" It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Freehling, William W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 1990.
Subjects:
1775-1865
Secession > Southern States.
Sécession > États-Unis (Sud)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Politics and government
Secession
War > Causes
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1775-1865.
États-Unis (Sud) > Politique et gouvernement > 1775-1865.
Southern States
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, ""a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream."" It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northern egalitarianism infiltrated border states already bitterly divided on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunio.
Physical Description:1 online resource (655 pages)
ISBN:0199762767
9780199762767

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