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Author:

Bowman, Shearer Davis.

Title:

At the precipice : Americans north and south during the secession crisis / Shearer Davis Bowman.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

379 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

United States--Politics and government--1849-1861
United States--Causes--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes
Secession--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

The Littlefield history of the Civil War era

ISBN:

0807833924 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807833926 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)441211491

LCCN:

2010013478

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)