At the precipice [electronic resource] : Americans north and south during the secession crisis / Shearer Davis Bowman.
Bowman, Shearer Davis.
2010
E415.7 .B64 2010eb
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Title At the precipice [electronic resource] : Americans north and south during the secession crisis / Shearer Davis Bowman.
Author Bowman, Shearer Davis.
ISBN 9780807895672 (electronic book)
9780807833926
Publication Details Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (379 p.) : ill., maps.
Call Number E415.7 .B64 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7/11
Summary Bowman explores the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the secession period. He examines the lives and thoughts of key figures and provides an especially vivid glimpse into what less famous men and women in both sections thought about themselves and the worlds in which they lived, and how their thoughts informed their actions during this time. Both sides glorified the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, yet they interpreted those sacred documents in markedly different ways and held very different notions of what constituted "American" values.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
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Introduction and overview
Slaveholders and slaves, state's rights and revolution
Honor and degradation : section, race, and gender
The second party system and its legacy : the careers of John Bell, John C. Breckinridge, Howell Cobb, Stephen A. Douglas, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren
Jefferson Davis, Horace L. Kent, and the old south
Abraham Lincoln, Henry Waller, and the free-labor north
Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard and Sojourner Truth : faith, race, and gender
President Buchanan, the Crittenden Compromise, President Lincoln, and Fort Sumter.

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