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UNINA9910816733703321 |
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Autore |
Sinha Manisha |
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Titolo |
The counterrevolution of slavery : politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina / / Manisha Sinha |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908720-6-7 |
0-8078-6097-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (378 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-342) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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