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At the precipice, Americans north and south during the secession crisis, Shearer Davis Bowman

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At the precipice, Americans north and south during the secession crisis, Shearer Davis Bowman

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

At the precipice

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

441211491

Responsibility statement

Shearer Davis Bowman

Series statement

The Littlefield history of the Civil War era

Sub title

Americans north and south during the secession crisis

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

Table Of 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

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Americans north and south during the secession crisis

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