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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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Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
Disciplina: | 975.7/03 |
Soggetto topico: | Slavery - Political aspects - South Carolina - History - 19th century |
Slaveholders - South Carolina - Political activity | |
Secession - South Carolina | |
Political culture - South Carolina - History - 19th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | South Carolina Politics and government 1775-1865 |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-342) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The counterrevolution of slavery ![]() |
ISBN: | 979-88-908720-6-7 |
0-8078-6097-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816733703321 |
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