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At the precipice : Americans north and south during the secession crisis / Shearer Davis Bowman.
LIBRA E415.7 .B64 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman, Shearer Davis.
- Series:
- Littlefield history of the Civil War era
- The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- History.
- Secession--United States--History.
- Secession.
- Physical Description:
- 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Americans north and south during the secession crisis
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807833926
- 0807833924
- OCLC:
- 441211491
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