03745nam 2200745 a 450 991077795880332120200520144314.00-8078-6607-51-4696-0620-80-8078-8718-8(CKB)1000000000764487(EBL)454841(OCoLC)405097257(SSID)ssj0000140191(PQKBManifestationID)11132244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140191(PQKBWorkID)10053287(PQKB)11497963(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245469(MdBmJHUP)muse23541(Au-PeEL)EBL454841(CaPaEBR)ebr10310785(CaONFJC)MIL931000(MiAaPQ)EBC454841(PPN)26425869X(EXLCZ)99100000000076448720080407d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDisunion![electronic resource] the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 /Elizabeth R. VaronChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20081 online resource (470 p.)The Littlefield history of the Civil War era"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.0-8078-7159-1 0-8078-3232-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-429) and index.The language of terrifying prophecy : disunion debates in the early republic -- We claim our rights : the advent of abolitionism -- Ruinous tendencies : the anti-abolition backlash -- The idea will become familiar : disunion in the era of mass party politics -- Oh for a man who is a man : debating slavery's expansion -- That is revolution! : the crisis of 1850 -- Beneath the iron heel : fugitive slaves and bleeding Kansas -- To consummate its boldest designs : the slave power confronts the republicans -- War to the knife : images of the coming fight -- Epilogue: The Rubicon is passed : the war and beyond.In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, ""disunion"" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which theyLittlefield history of the Civil War era.Sectionalism (United States)HistorySectionalism (United States)HistorySourcesSlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistoryRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesPolitics and government1783-1865United StatesPolitics and government1783-1865SourcesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesSectionalism (United States)History.Sectionalism (United States)HistorySlaveryPolitical aspectsHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.RhetoricPolitical aspectsHistory.973.7/11Varon Elizabeth R.1963-1522198MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777958803321Disunion3761782UNINA