02159oam 22005054a 450 991015552940332120170922081400.00-8071-6436-4(CKB)4340000000019048(MiAaPQ)EBC4753424(OCoLC)965196485(MdBmJHUP)muse54110(EXLCZ)99434000000001904820161017d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Slaveholding Crisis[electronic resource] Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War /Carl Lawrence PaulusBaton Rouge, [Louisiana] :Louisiana State University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (326 pages)Conflicting worlds, new dimensions of the American Civil War0-8071-6435-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.ExceptionalismUnited StatesAntislavery movementsHistory19th centurySlave insurrectionsHistory19th centurySlaveryUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1857-1861Electronic books. ExceptionalismAntislavery movementsHistorySlave insurrectionsHistorySlaveryHistory326/.80973Paulus Carl Lawrence1983-1379402MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910155529403321The Slaveholding Crisis3419095UNINA