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

An analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, offering a provocative look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Manisha Sinha argues that secession was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.

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Main Author: Sinha, Manisha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2000]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0807860972
9780807860977
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:An analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, offering a provocative look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Manisha Sinha argues that secession was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-342) and index.
Language Note:English.
Series:UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
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