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Roots of secession slavery and politics in antebellum Virginia
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Title
Roots of secession [electronic resource] : slavery and politics in antebellum Virginia / William A. Link.
ISBN
0807827711 (alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Physical Description
xvii, 387 p. : ill., maps.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2014
Series
Civil War America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-371) and index.
Contents
A slave society : Virginia in the 1850s
Boastful and belligerent champions of southern institutions : slavery and politics, 1851-1854
A uniform spirit of lawlessness : the problem of runaways
A spirit of license in the guise of liberty : the survival of opposition, 1854-1856
The darkest and most perilous hours of our national existence : the deepening sectional crisis, 1856-1859
A black demon of fanaticism : Harpers Ferry and the election of 1860
To light the torch of servile insurrection : the secession crisis.
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