The Slaveholding Crisis : Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War /

In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln's place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, southerners--both sla...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Paulus, Carl Lawrence, 1983- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Slavery.
Slave insurrections.
Politics and government.
Exceptionalism.
Antislavery movements.
Exceptionnalisme > États-Unis.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Revoltes d'esclaves > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Antislavery movements > History > 19th century.
Slave insurrections > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1857-1861.
United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861.
Materiel d'education et de formation.
Instructional and educational works.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: expectations and exceptionalism
  • The Haitian Revolution and slaveholding anxiety
  • "Fanaticism" and southern fears of black rebellion
  • Atlantic abolitionism and American exceptionalism
  • Proslavery fear and the rise of the abolitionist power
  • Texas annexation and the proslavery promise
  • Wilmot's Proviso and the slaveholding crisis
  • The proslavery turn against American exceptionalism
  • Epilogue: Fighting over exceptionalism.

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