The counterrevolution of slavery : politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina / Manisha Sinha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinha, Manisha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Political aspects--South Carolina--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slaveholders--South Carolina--Political activity.

Slaveholders.

Secession--South Carolina.

Secession.

Political culture--South Carolina--History--19th century.

Political culture.

South Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important ree

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Genesis of the Political Ideology of Slavery; 2. Nullification; 3. The Discourse of Southern Nationalism; 4. South Carolina and the First Secession Crisis; 5. The Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade; 6. Judicial Nullification; 7. The Coming of Secession; 8. Secession; Epilogue: The Counterrevolution of Slavery; Notes; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-342) and index.

ISBN:

9798890872067

9780807860977

0807860972

OCLC:

476268756