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The slaveholding crisis : fear of insurrection and the coming of the Civil War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paulus, Carl Lawrence, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.
Slave insurrections > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > History > 19th century.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: expectations and exceptionalism
  • The Haitian Revolution and slaveholding anxiety
  • "Fanaticism" and southern fears of black rebellion
  • Atlantic abolitionism and American exceptionalism
  • Proslavery fear and the rise of the abolitionist power
  • Texas annexation and the proslavery promise
  • Wilmot's Proviso and the slaveholding crisis
  • The proslavery turn against American exceptionalism
  • Epilogue: Fighting over exceptionalism.