Introduction: Finding the heart of the sectional conflict
Prologue: Slavery, sectionalism, and the affective theory of the Union
Part I. Emotion and the Growth of Sectional Political Identities
Free labor, slave labor, and the political economy of happiness
Managed hearts and unmanageable slaves
Jealousy and the sectionalization of emotional styles
Part II. Emotion and the Mobilization of Sectional Coalitions
Indignation and the fitful growth of mass antislavery sentiment, 1820-1856
Indignation and the Northern mobilization for war, 1856-1861
Political jealousy and Southern radicalism from nullification to secession
Mourning and the mobilization of reluctant secessionists, 1860-1861
Epilogue: Reconstructing the affective theory of the Union.