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

Manisha Sinha (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2000
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2000
History
1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : maps
9780807860977, 0807860972
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Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction The Problem of South Carolina Revisited1(8)
The Genesis of the Political Ideology of Slavery
9(24)
Nullification
33(30)
The Discourse of Southern Nationalism
63(32)
South Carolina and the First Secession Crisis
95(30)
The Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade
125(28)
Judicial Nullification
153(34)
The Coming of Secession
187(34)
Secession
221(34)
Epilogue The Counterrevolution of Slavery255(4)
Notes259(64)
Bibliography of Primary Sources323(20)
Index343
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English