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The Road to Disunion, Vol. 1 [Volume I]: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
[Buy it!] | Freehling, William W. | USD 14.50
(Sat May 25 16:21:47 2024) | Abebooks | Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA | ISBN10: 0195072596, ISBN13: 9780195072594, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover Fifth printing. Page ridge soiled, two pages dog-eared. 1991 Trade Paperback. xii, 640 pp. Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War 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, where the egalitarian spirit sweeping the North seeped down through border states already uncertain about slavery, where even sections of the same state (for instance, coastal and mountain Virginia) divided bitterly 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.
[Webster, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
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