The slaveholding crisis : fear of insurrection and the coming of the Civil War / Carl Lawrence Paulus.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Paulus, Carl Lawrence, 1983- author.

Series:

• Conflicting worlds
• Conflicting worlds, new dimensions of the American Civil War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Antislavery movements.
• History.
• Slave rebellions.
• United States--Politics and government--1857-1861.
• United States.
• Politics and government.
• Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
• Slavery.
• Slave rebellions--History--19th century.
• Antislavery movements--History--19th century.
• Exceptionalism--United States.
• Exceptionalism.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780807164358
• 0807164356

OCLC:

945641336