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The slaveholding crisis : fear of insurrection and the coming of the Civil War

Title
The slaveholding crisis : fear of insurrection and the coming of the Civil War / Carl Lawrence Paulus.
Author
Paulus, Carl Lawrence, 1983-
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]

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TextUse in library Sc E 17-201Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Description
xi, 311 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Conflicting worlds, new dimensions of the American Civil War
Uniform Title
Conflicting worlds.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Slavery > United States > History > 19th century
  • Slave rebellions > History > 19th century
  • Antislavery movements > History > 19th century
  • Exceptionalism > United States
  • Antislavery movements
  • Exceptionalism
  • Politics and government
  • Slave rebellions
  • Slavery
  • United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: expectations and exceptionalism -- The Haitian Revolution and slaveholding anxiety -- "Fanaticism" and southern fears of black rebellion -- Atlantic abolitionism and American exceptionalism -- Proslavery fear and the rise of the abolitionist power -- Texas annexation and the proslavery promise -- Wilmot's Proviso and the slaveholding crisis -- The proslavery turn against American exceptionalism -- Epilogue: Fighting over exceptionalism.
Call Number
Sc E 17-201
ISBN
  • 9780807164358
  • 0807164356
LCCN
2016012830
OCLC
945641336
Author
Paulus, Carl Lawrence, 1983- author.
Title
The slaveholding crisis : fear of insurrection and the coming of the Civil War / Carl Lawrence Paulus.
Publisher
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Conflicting worlds, new dimensions of the American Civil War
Conflicting worlds.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Research Call Number
Sc E 17-201
JFE 19-624
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