Slavery And Secession In America Historical And Economical
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| Author | : John Majewski |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807882372 |
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led modernization. They blamed the South's lack of development on Union policies of discriminatory taxes on southern commerce and unfair subsidies for northern industry. Majewski argues that Confederates' opposition to a strong central government was politically tied to their struggle against northern legislative dominance. Once the Confederacy was formed, those who had advocated states' rights in the national legislature in order to defend against northern political dominance quickly came to support centralized power and a strong executive for war making and nation building.
| Author | : James L. Huston |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780807828045 |
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery-with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications-gave rise to the sectional rift.
| Author | : Robert L. Paquette |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780813919522 |
Heir to changing views of slavery in the US South sparked by Eugene Genovese's Marxist analyses, ten original essays probe philosophical, socioeconomic, and literary issues of slavery. Appends 1990s interviews with Genovese and a list of his principal writings. Pacquette and Ferleger teach history at Hamilton College and Boston U., respectively. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Gavin Wright |
| Publisher | : LSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2013-02-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807152285 |
Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization—the aspect that has dominated historical debates—and slavery as a set of property rights. Slave-based commerce remained central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms.
| Author | : Thomas ELLISON (of Liverpool.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1862 |
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| Author | : Eugene D. Genovese |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780819562081 |
A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south.
| Author | : Walter Prescott Webb |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1176 |
| Release | : 1952 |
| Genre | : Texas |
| ISBN | : |
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
| Author | : William A. Link |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2004-01-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807863203 |
Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War. An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves--more than any other state in the nation--and some 50,000 free blacks, Virginia witnessed a uniquely volatile convergence of slave resistance and electoral politics in the 1850s. While masters struggled with slaves, disunionists sought to join a regionwide effort to secede and moderates sought to protect slavery but remain in the Union. Arguing for a definition of political action that extends beyond the electoral sphere, Link shows that the coming of the Civil War was directly connected to Virginia's system of slavery, as the tension between defiant slaves and anxious slaveholders energized Virginia politics and spurred on the impending sectional crisis.
| Author | : Marc Egnal |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 2010-01-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1429943890 |
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade along east-west lines. Meanwhile, in the South, soil exhaustion, concerns about the country's westward expansion, and growing ties between the Upper South and the free states led many cotton planters to contemplate secession. The war that ensued was truly a "clash of extremes." Sweeping from the 1820s through Reconstruction and filled with colorful portraits of leading individuals, Clash of Extremes emphasizes economics while giving careful consideration to social conflicts, ideology, and the rise of the antislavery movement. The result is a bold reinterpretation that will challenge the way we think about the Civil War.
| Author | : Eric Williams |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2014-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469619490 |
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.
