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Paulus Carl Lawrence <1983-> |
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The Slaveholding Crisis [[electronic resource] ] : Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War / / Carl Lawrence Paulus |
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Baton Rouge, [Louisiana] : , : Louisiana State University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 pages) |
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Collana |
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Conflicting worlds, new dimensions of the American Civil War |
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Disciplina |
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Exceptionalism - United States |
Antislavery movements - History - 19th century |
Slave insurrections - History - 19th century |
Slavery - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
United States Politics and government 1857-1861 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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