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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, David, 1968 April 25-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Helper, Hinton Rowan, > 1829-1909
Helper, Hinton Rowan, > 1829-1909. > Impending crisis of the South.
Helper, Hinton Rowan, > 1829-1909.
Impending crisis of the South (Helper, Hinton Rowan)
Slavery.
Politics and government
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Esclavage > États-Unis.
Slavery > Southern States.
Slavery > United States.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1857-1861.
United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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