The road to disunion. Volume 1. Secessionists at bay, 1776-1854 / William W. Freehling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freehling, William W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secession--Southern States.

Secession.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.

United States.

Southern States--Politics and government--1775-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (655 pages)

Place of Publication:

: Oxford University Press, USA, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, ""a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream."" It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northern egalitarianism infiltrated border states already bitterly divided on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunio

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Prologue: The Spirit of Montgomery; PART I: A SWING AROUND THE SOUTHERN CIRCLE; 1. St. Louis to New Orleans; 2. New Orleans to Charleston to Baltimore to St. Louis; PART II: SOCIAL CONTROL IN A DESPOTS' DEMOCRACY; 3. Mastering Consenting White Folk; 4. The Domestic Charade, I: Massa's Act; 5. The Domestic Charade, II: Cuffee's Act; 6. Democrats as Lynchers; PART III: CONDITIONAL TERMINATION IN THE EARLY UPPER SOUTH; 7. Conditional Termination in the Early Republic; 8. The Missouri Controversy; 9. Class Revolt in Virginia, I: Anti-Egalitarianism Attacked

10. Class Revolt in Virginia, II: Slavery Besieged11. Not-So-Conditional Termination in the Northern Chesapeake; PART IV: NONDECISIVE DECISION IN SOUTH CAROLINA; 12. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, I: Economic and Political Foundations; 13. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, II: Cultural Foundations; 14. The First Confrontation Crisis, I: Calhoun versus Jackson; 15. The First Confrontation Crisis, II: South Carolina versus the South; PART V: THE GAG RULE AND THE POLITICS OF ""MERE"" WORDS; 16. The Reorganization of Southern Politics

17. The Gag Rule, I: Mr. Hammond's Mysterious Motion18. The Gag Rule, II: Mr. Pinckney's Controversial Compromise; 19. The Gag Rule, III: Mr. Johnson's Ironic Intransigence; PART VI: THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS; 20. Anti-Annexation as Manifest Destiny; 21. An Extremist's Zany Pilgrimage; 22. The Administration's Decision; 23. Southern Democrats' Decision; 24. The Electorate's Decision; 25. The Congressional Decision; PART VII: CRISIS AT MIDCENTURY; 26. Loaded Words, Loathsome Collaborations; 27. Southern Convention, Without a South; 28. The Armistice of 1850; 29. The Paralysis of the Old Order

30. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, I: Confrontation in Missouri31. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, II: Decision in Congress; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-976276-7