At the precipice : Americans north and south during the secession crisis /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and overview
- Slaveholders and slaves, state's rights and revolution
- Honor and degradation : section, race, and gender
- The second party system and its legacy : the careers of John Bell, John C. Breckinridge, Howell Cobb, Stephen A. Douglas, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren
- Jefferson Davis, Horace L. Kent, and the old south
- Abraham Lincoln, Henry Waller, and the free-labor north
- Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard and Sojourner Truth : faith, race, and gender
- President Buchanan, the Crittenden Compromise, President Lincoln, and Fort Sumter.