Format:
Online-Ressource (379 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780807833926
Series Statement:
Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Content:
Bowman explores the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the secession period. He examines the lives and thoughts of key figures and provides an especially vivid glimpse
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Slaveholders and Slaves, State's Rights and Revolution; 3 Honor and Degradation: Section, Race, and Gender; 4 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; 5 Jefferson Davis, Horace L. Kent, and the Old South; 6 Abraham Lincoln, Henry Waller, and the Free- Labor North; 7 Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard and Sojourner Truth: Faith, Race, and Gender; 8 President Buchanan, the Crittenden Compromise, President Lincoln, and Fort Sumter; Notes
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Guide to Further ReadingAcknowledgments; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807833926
Additional Edition:
Print version At the Precipice : Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis
Language:
English
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