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Liberty and slavery : southern politics to 1860
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- Summary
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Cooper assesses how the South's devotion to liberty shaped its response to major legislation, judicial decisions, and military actions, and how abolitionism, in the eyes of white southerners, threa...
Cooper assesses how the South's devotion to liberty shaped its response to major legislation, judicial decisions, and military actions, and how abolitionism, in the eyes of white southerners, threatened the destruction of local control and the death of liberty.
Details
- Creator
- William J. Cooper, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2000
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : illustrations, maps
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781570033872, 1570033870, 9781643362175, 1643362178
- OCLC
- on1245667311, on1273307489, on1245858246
- Originally published: 1st edition New York : Knopf, ©1983.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-303) and index.
- Colonial antecedents -- The impact of the revolution -- Creating a new political arena -- Self-interest, ideology, and partisanship -- Politics and power -- The attractions and perils of nationalism -- Change and continuity -- The Jackson party and Southern politics -- Two-party politics -- The territorial issue -- Political revolution