03385nam 2200613Ia 450 991045069620332120200520144314.00-8078-6168-5(CKB)1000000000447682(EBL)834238(OCoLC)56356660(SSID)ssj0000116782(PQKBManifestationID)11141678(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116782(PQKBWorkID)10035756(PQKB)11755304(MiAaPQ)EBC834238(Au-PeEL)EBL834238(CaPaEBR)ebr10064776(CaONFJC)MIL930690(EXLCZ)99100000000044768220030418d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCalculating the value of the Union[electronic resource] slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War /James L. HustonChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20031 online resource (413 p.)Civil War AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-2804-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-385) and index.Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I. The Themes of Slavery and Property Rights, 1776-1860; 1. Slavery, Property Rights, and the American Revolution; 2. The Origins of Slaveholder Aggressiveness; 3. Free Labor and the Competition of Slaves; 4. The Antislavery Debate over Property Rights; 5. The Constitutionality of Slavery Prohibition in the Territories; Part II. The Political Realignment of the 1850's; 6. The Politics of Southern Upheaval, 1846-1853; 7. The Northern Realignment, 1854-1860; Afterword; Appendix A. A Theory of Political Realignment; Appendix B. Graphing U.S. Politics, 1840-1860Appendix C. State and Congressional Elections Used in Figures 6.1, 7.1, and B.1-10 Appendix D. Number of Cases for Regions in Average Vote in Elections Used for Figures 6.1, 7.1, and B.1-10; Notes; Sources; Index;While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War.In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rightsCivil War America.SlaveryEconomic aspectsUnited StatesHistoryRight of propertyUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Economic aspectsElectronic books.SlaveryEconomic aspectsHistory.Right of propertyHistory.973.71Huston James L.1947-958626MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450696203321Calculating the value of the Union2172207UNINA