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Item Details
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ROOTS OF SECESSION
SLAVERY AND POLITICS IN ANTEBELLUM VIRGINIA |
| By: |
William A. Link |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£53.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0807827711 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780807827710 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 March, 2003 |
| Pages: |
408 |
| Description: |
This text studies the role of slaves and free blacks in the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia. It places African Americans at the centre of events and argues that their acts of rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the period prior to the Civil War. |
| Synopsis: |
The role of slaves and free blacks in the politics of secession An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves 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, William A. 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. |
| Illustrations: |
19 illustrations, 16 tables, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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