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Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War

Title
Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War / James L. Huston.
Author
Huston, James L., 1947-
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

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Description
xvii, 394 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Civil War America
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-385) and index.
Contents
Slavery, property rights, and the American Revolution -- The origins of slaveholder aggressiveness -- Free labor and the competition of slaves -- The antislavery debate over property rights -- The constitutionality of slavery prohibition in the territories -- The politics of Southern upheaval, 1846-1853 -- The Northern realignment, 1854-1860.
Call Number
IKA 03-6968
ISBN
0807828041 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003008363
OCLC
52134677
Author
Huston, James L., 1947-
Title
Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War / James L. Huston.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Series
Civil War America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-385) and index.
Research Call Number
IKA 03-6968
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