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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Bibliographic Details
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
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.