From eminent, prize-winning historian William W. Freehling, this is the masterful, definitive account of how the Old South started the Civil War. Freehling traces the development of Southern sentiment for disunion after 1854, but shows how fortuitous events, after Lincoln's election as President in 1860, allowed a tiny minority to lead the South into war and succession.
From eminent, prize-winning historian William W. Freehling, this is the masterful, definitive account of how the Old South started the Civil War. Freehling traces the development of Southern sentiment for disunion after 1854, but shows how fortuitous events, after Lincoln's election as President in 1860, allowed a tiny minority to lead the South into war and succession.
William W. Freehling is one of the most distinguished American historians of the Civil War era. He is Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky and Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He is the author of Prelude to Civil War , which won a Bancroft Prize, The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay , and The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
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Illustrations Maps Preface Prologue: Yanceys Rage PART I BETTER ECONOMIC TIMES GENERATE WORSE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS 1: Democracy and Despotism, 1776-1854: Road, Volume I, Revisited 2: Economic Bonanza, 1850-1860 PART II THE CLIMACTIC IDEOLOGICAL FRUSTRATIONS 3: James Henry Hammond and the Unsolvable Proslavery Puzzle 4: The Three Imperfect Solutions 5: The Puzzling Future and the Infuriating Scapegoats PART III THE CLIMACTIC POLITICAL FRUSTRATIONS 6: Bleeding Kansas and Bloody Summer 7: The Scattering of the Ex-Whigs 8: James Buchanans Precarious Election 9: The President-Elect as the Dred Scotts Judge 10: The Climactic Kansas Crisis 11: Caribbean Delusions 12: Reopening the African Slave Trade 13: Reenslaving Free Blacks PART IV JOHN BROWN AND THREE OTHER MEN COINCIDENTALLY NAMED JOHN 14: John Brown and Violent Invasion 15: John G. Fee and Religious Invasion 16: John Underwood and Economic Invasion 17: John Clark and Political Invasion PART V THE ELECTION OF 1860 18: Yanceys Lethal Abstraction 19: The Democracys Charleston Convention 20: The Democracys Baltimore Convention 21: Suspicious Southerners and Lincolns Election PART VI SOUTH CAROLINA DARES 22: The States Rights Justification 23: The Motivation 24: The Tactics and Tacticians 25: The Triumph Coda: Did the Coincidence Change History? PART VII LOWER SOUTH LANDSLIDE, UPPER SOUTH STALEMATE 26: Alexander Stephens Fleeting Moment Coda: Did Stephenss and Hammonds Personalities Change History? 27: Southwestern Separatists Tactics and Messages 28: Compromise Rejected 29: Military Explosions 30: Snowball Rolling 31: Upper South Stalemate 32: Stalemate-and the south-shattered Coda: How Did Slavery Cause the Civil War? Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Index
Illustrations Maps Preface Prologue: Yanceys Rage PART I BETTER ECONOMIC TIMES GENERATE WORSE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS 1: Democracy and Despotism, 1776-1854: Road, Volume I, Revisited 2: Economic Bonanza, 1850-1860 PART II THE CLIMACTIC IDEOLOGICAL FRUSTRATIONS 3: James Henry Hammond and the Unsolvable Proslavery Puzzle 4: The Three Imperfect Solutions 5: The Puzzling Future and the Infuriating Scapegoats PART III THE CLIMACTIC POLITICAL FRUSTRATIONS 6: Bleeding Kansas and Bloody Summer 7: The Scattering of the Ex-Whigs 8: James Buchanans Precarious Election 9: The President-Elect as the Dred Scotts Judge 10: The Climactic Kansas Crisis 11: Caribbean Delusions 12: Reopening the African Slave Trade 13: Reenslaving Free Blacks PART IV JOHN BROWN AND THREE OTHER MEN COINCIDENTALLY NAMED JOHN 14: John Brown and Violent Invasion 15: John G. Fee and Religious Invasion 16: John Underwood and Economic Invasion 17: John Clark and Political Invasion PART V THE ELECTION OF 1860 18: Yanceys Lethal Abstraction 19: The Democracys Charleston Convention 20: The Democracys Baltimore Convention 21: Suspicious Southerners and Lincolns Election PART VI SOUTH CAROLINA DARES 22: The States Rights Justification 23: The Motivation 24: The Tactics and Tacticians 25: The Triumph Coda: Did the Coincidence Change History? PART VII LOWER SOUTH LANDSLIDE, UPPER SOUTH STALEMATE 26: Alexander Stephens Fleeting Moment Coda: Did Stephenss and Hammonds Personalities Change History? 27: Southwestern Separatists Tactics and Messages 28: Compromise Rejected 29: Military Explosions 30: Snowball Rolling 31: Upper South Stalemate 32: Stalemate-and the south-shattered Coda: How Did Slavery Cause the Civil War? Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Index
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