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At the precipice : Americans north and south during the secession crisis
Bowman explores the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the secession period. He examines the lives and thoughts of key figures and provides an especially vivid glimpse into what less famous men and women in both s...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2010.
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| Series: | Littlefield history of the Civil War era
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Table of 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.