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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2000]
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| ISBN: | 0807860972 9780807860977 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Problem of South Carolina Revisited
- The Genesis of the Political Ideology of Slavery
- Nullification
- The Discourse of Southern Nationalism
- South Carolina and the First Secession Crisis
- The Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade
- Judicial Nullification
- The Coming of Secession
- Secession
- Epilogue: The Counterrevolution of Slavery.