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Author: James L. Huston Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807861685 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
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While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War. In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery posed to the northern free labor market, particularly if allowed to spread to western territories. This impasse sparked a process of political realignment that culminated in the creation of the Republican Party, ultimately leading to the secession crisis. Deeply researched and carefully written, this study rebuts recent trends in antebellum historiography and persuasively argues for a fundamentally economic interpretation of the slavery issue and the coming of the Civil War.
Author: James L. Huston Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807861685 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
Book Description
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War. In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery posed to the northern free labor market, particularly if allowed to spread to western territories. This impasse sparked a process of political realignment that culminated in the creation of the Republican Party, ultimately leading to the secession crisis. Deeply researched and carefully written, this study rebuts recent trends in antebellum historiography and persuasively argues for a fundamentally economic interpretation of the slavery issue and the coming of the Civil War.
Author: Samuel H. Hammond Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780366561742 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 20
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Excerpt from Freedom National, Slavery Sectional: Speech of the Hon. S. H. Hammond, of the 27th Senate District, on the Governor's Message, in Senate, February, 1860 Sir, will the Senator from the 1st go further than this in the protection of State r1obts or in vindication of State sovereignty! Will he ask the Republican Party to go further in that dirce tion? Sir, I said the Republican Party loved freedom and hates slavery; and frankness de mands the avowal that, while it regards slavery as a State institution, and is ready to protect it there, it will never consent that it shall spread one inch beyond the boundary of the States. It will never consent that one inch of territory now free shall be surrendered to its sway, or that its shadow shall ever darken one foot of the nation al domain. It will never consent that soil once consecrated to freedom shall be desecrated by the footprint of a_slave. It will never consent to the acquisition of another acre of slave territory, whether by conquest or by purchase. It will never consent to the admission of another slave State into the Union, otherwise than as such State may be made by a division of Texas into two or more States. This, sir, is the Republican creed, as I understand it, upon the subject of slavery. Upon this ground the Republican Party will stand in 1860, and from which it can neither be persuaded nor driven. If defeated in 1860, it will stand there in 1864, and in 1868, and in 1872, and always, until this great conflict shall have 'ended by the triumph or annihilation of freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Larissa P. Watkins Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 208
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"First edition. Published two years in advance of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth (February 12, 2009), this bibliography will be, for Abraham Lincoln scholars and enthusiasts, "a glowing candle on the birthday cake." The volume features approximately 1,000 entries, over 100 images of covers and title pages, and brief excerpts about President Lincoln from many of the publications. The House of the Temple Library possesses one of the nation's finest collections of Lincolniana. In addition to a foreword and an introduction, the book includes, as an appendix, a 26-page facsimile of Lincoln collector and scholar Dr. L.D. Carman's pamphlet "Abraham Lincoln, Freemason." Lincoln was not a Mason, but he "personified the cause of liberty and human fraternity" and in many other respects embodied principles that Freemasons hold dear. This book is the third in an ongoing series of bibliographies authored by Larissa Watkins and co-published by Oak Knoll Press and the Library of the Supreme Council."--Publisher's website.
Author: William Frederick Doolittle Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781016855594 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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