Attribution
David L. LightnerPublication Details
BookYale University Press2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E442 .L54 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
He revises accepted interpretations of various historical figures, including James Madison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln, and he argues convincingly that southern anxiety over the threat to the interstate slave trade was a key precipitant to the secession of the South and the Civil War. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Slave trade — United States — History — 19th century
- Antislavery movements — United States — History — 19th century
- Interstate commerce — United States — History — 19th century
- Slavery — Political aspects — United States — History — 19th century
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Causes
Contents
- A Continual Torment
- This Blind Mysterious Form of Words
- Are They Not the Lord’s Enemies?
- Different Opinions at Different Times
- The Door to the Slave Bastille
- Little Will Remain to Be Done Except to Sing Te Deum
- Great and Terrible Realities
- The Friction and Abrasion of War
ISBN
- 0300114702
- 9780300114706
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