000718534 000__ 04464cam\a2200481\i\4500 000718534 001__ 718534 000718534 005__ 20210515102739.0 000718534 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000718534 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000718534 008__ 150424t20142014tnu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000718534 019__ $$a900888591 000718534 020__ $$a9781621901181$$qelectronic book 000718534 020__ $$z9781621900573$$qhardcover 000718534 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn894555090 000718534 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr11001089 000718534 035__ $$a718534 000718534 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000718534 043__ $$an-us-ky 000718534 05014 $$aF455$$b.M37 2014eb 000718534 08204 $$a976.9/03$$223 000718534 1001_ $$aMatthews, Gary Robert,$$d1949-$$eauthor. 000718534 24510 $$aMore American than southern$$h[electronic resource] :$$bKentucky, slavery, and the war for an American ideology, 1828-1861 /$$cGary R. Matthews. 000718534 250__ $$aFirst edition. 000718534 264_1 $$aKnoxville, Tennessee :$$bThe University of Tennessee Press,$$c2014. 000718534 264_4 $$c©2014 000718534 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) 000718534 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000718534 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000718534 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000718534 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000718534 5050_ $$aClass structure -- The paradigm -- Subregional variances -- The Whig era -- The politics of economic development -- Crisis and compromise -- Party realignment -- Cold war -- The labyrinth of sectional politics -- The secession crisis, part I -- The secession crisis, part II -- A hollow concept -- Kentucky unionism -- The end of an era. 000718534 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000718534 520__ $$aWhen Fort Sumter fell to Confederate troops in April 1861, most states quickly declared their allegiances to the North or South. Kentucky, however, assumed an antiwar posture that outlasted Fort Sumter by five months, begrudgingly joining the Union cause only when Confederate troops marched into the state and seized the town of Columbus. With its hesitancy to make an immediate commitment and faced with the conflicting sentiments of its people, Kentucky stood as a microcosm of the nation's dilemma. In the first comprehensive examination of Kentucky's secession crisis in nearly ninety years, Gary R. Matthews examines the antebellum social, economic, and political issues that distinguished Kentucky from the rest of the slave and border states, identifying it instead with a national perspective and its own peculiar form of Unionism. On the eve of the Civil War, Kentucky's affinity for the South was based on historical and cultural similarities, including the presence of slavery and a powerful master class. However, the planter class that dominated early Kentucky was supplanted in the 1830s by an urban middle class that challenged both the need for slavery and the authority of the master class. Matthews analyzes the dichotomy of these two groups, examines emancipation efforts in Kentucky, and explores the intricacies of Whig politics to show how Kentucky differed from the model in significant ways. He also explains how geographical components, most importantly the southern Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio-Mississippi River system, helped define Kentucky's singular role in antebellum America. As Matthews shows, Kentuckians desired both Union and slavery, and saw secession as a threat to both. The state's unique political and economic identities had been established long before the sectional crisis, and its self-interests could be best served in a national as opposed to a sectional environment. By choosing neutrality and then Unionism, the Kentucky of 1861 proved it was more American than southern. Gary R. Matthews, an independent historian and freelance writer, is the author of Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place. 000718534 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000718534 650_0 $$aSlavery$$zKentucky$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000718534 650_0 $$aPolitical culture$$zKentucky$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000718534 650_0 $$aSecession$$zKentucky. 000718534 651_0 $$aKentucky$$xPolitics and government$$y1792-1865. 000718534 651_0 $$aKentucky$$xHistory$$y1792-1865. 000718534 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMatthews, Gary Robert, 1949-$$tMore American than southern.$$bFirst edition.$$dKnoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2014$$z9781621900573$$w(DLC) 2013047055$$w(OCoLC)866803594 000718534 8520_ $$bacq 000718534 85280 $$bebk$$hEbrary 000718534 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3039974$$zOnline Access 000718534 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:718534$$pGLOBAL_SET 000718534 980__ $$aEBOOK 000718534 980__ $$aBIB 000718534 982__ $$aEbook 000718534 983__ $$aOnline