Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War /
In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery...
| Основен автор: | Huston, James L., 1947- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2003.
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| Серия: |
Civil War America.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Calculating the value of the Union. |
Съдържание:
- Slavery, property rights, and the American Revolution
- The origins of slaveholder aggressiveness
- Free labor and the competition of slaves
- The antislavery debate over property rights
- The constitutionality of slavery prohibition in the territories
- The politics of Southern upheaval, 1846-1853
- The Northern realignment, 1854-1860.