The slaveholding crisis : fear of insurrection and the coming of the Civil War / Carl Lawrence Paulus.
Uniform Title: | Conflicting worlds.
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Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2017]
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Series: | Conflicting worlds.
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Physical Description: | xi, 311 pages ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: expectations and exceptionalism
- The Haitian Revolution and slaveholding anxiety
- "Fanaticism" and southern fears of black rebellion
- Atlantic abolitionism and American exceptionalism
- Proslavery fear and the rise of the abolitionist power
- Texas annexation and the proslavery promise
- Wilmot's Proviso and the slaveholding crisis
- The proslavery turn against American exceptionalism
- Epilogue: Fighting over exceptionalism.