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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816733703321

Autore

Sinha Manisha

Titolo

The counterrevolution of slavery : politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina / / Manisha Sinha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000

ISBN

979-88-908720-6-7

0-8078-6097-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Disciplina

975.7/03

Soggetti

Slavery - Political aspects - South Carolina - History - 19th century

Slaveholders - South Carolina - Political activity

Secession - South Carolina

Political culture - South Carolina - History - 19th century

South Carolina Politics and government 1775-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-342) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Genesis of the Political Ideology of Slavery; 2. Nullification; 3. The Discourse of Southern Nationalism; 4. South Carolina and the First Secession Crisis; 5. The Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade; 6. Judicial Nullification; 7. The Coming of Secession; 8. Secession; Epilogue: The Counterrevolution of Slavery; Notes; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important ree