- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages)
- Series Statement
- Conflicting worlds, new dimensions of the American Civil War
- Uniform Title
- Slaveholding crisis (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Slaveholding crisis (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-301) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016012830
- OCLC
- ssj0001752270
- Author
Paulus, Carl Lawrence, 1983-
- Title
The slaveholding crisis [electronic resource] : fear of insurrection and the coming of the Civil War / Carl Lawrence Paulus.
- Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
- Series
Conflicting worlds, new dimensions of the American Civil War
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-301) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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