LEADER 04039nam 22005173u 450 001 9910821978803321 005 20230331012849.0 010 $a0-19-976276-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000506664 035 $a(EBL)684531 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001148683 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12403455 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001148683 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11165373 035 $a(PQKB)10306517 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC684531 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000506664 100 $a20151123d1990|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||u|| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent. 182 $cc$2rdamedia. 183 $acr$2rdacarrier. 200 14$aThe road to disunion$hVolume 1$iSecessionists at bay, 1776-1854 /$fWilliam W. Freehling 210 $cOxford University Press, USA$d1990 215 $a1 online resource (655 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-507259-6 327 $aCover; Contents; Prologue: The Spirit of Montgomery; PART I: A SWING AROUND THE SOUTHERN CIRCLE; 1. St. Louis to New Orleans; 2. New Orleans to Charleston to Baltimore to St. Louis; PART II: SOCIAL CONTROL IN A DESPOTS' DEMOCRACY; 3. Mastering Consenting White Folk; 4. The Domestic Charade, I: Massa's Act; 5. The Domestic Charade, II: Cuffee's Act; 6. Democrats as Lynchers; PART III: CONDITIONAL TERMINATION IN THE EARLY UPPER SOUTH; 7. Conditional Termination in the Early Republic; 8. The Missouri Controversy; 9. Class Revolt in Virginia, I: Anti-Egalitarianism Attacked 327 $a10. Class Revolt in Virginia, II: Slavery Besieged11. Not-So-Conditional Termination in the Northern Chesapeake; PART IV: NONDECISIVE DECISION IN SOUTH CAROLINA; 12. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, I: Economic and Political Foundations; 13. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, II: Cultural Foundations; 14. The First Confrontation Crisis, I: Calhoun versus Jackson; 15. The First Confrontation Crisis, II: South Carolina versus the South; PART V: THE GAG RULE AND THE POLITICS OF ""MERE"" WORDS; 16. The Reorganization of Southern Politics 327 $a17. The Gag Rule, I: Mr. Hammond's Mysterious Motion18. The Gag Rule, II: Mr. Pinckney's Controversial Compromise; 19. The Gag Rule, III: Mr. Johnson's Ironic Intransigence; PART VI: THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS; 20. Anti-Annexation as Manifest Destiny; 21. An Extremist's Zany Pilgrimage; 22. The Administration's Decision; 23. Southern Democrats' Decision; 24. The Electorate's Decision; 25. The Congressional Decision; PART VII: CRISIS AT MIDCENTURY; 26. Loaded Words, Loathsome Collaborations; 27. Southern Convention, Without a South; 28. The Armistice of 1850; 29. The Paralysis of the Old Order 327 $a30. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, I: Confrontation in Missouri31. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, II: Decision in Congress; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y 330 $aFar from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, ""a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream."" It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northern egalitarianism infiltrated border states already bitterly divided on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunio 606 $aSecession$zSouthern States 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCauses 607 $aSouthern States$xPolitics and government$y1775-1865 615 0$aSecession 676 $a973 700 $aFreehling$b William W$01117205 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821978803321 996 $aThe road to disunion$93953319 997 $aUNINA