Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War

Author/Creator:

Huston, James L., 1947-

Publication/Creation:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War / James L. Huston

Series Titles:

Civil War America
Civil War America.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History
Right of property--United States--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I. The Themes of Slavery and Property Rights, 1776-1860; 1. Slavery, Property Rights, and the American Revolution; 2. The Origins of Slaveholder Aggressiveness; 3. Free Labor and the Competition of Slaves; 4. The Antislavery Debate over Property Rights; 5. The Constitutionality of Slavery Prohibition in the Territories; Part II. The Political Realignment of the 1850's; 6. The Politics of Southern Upheaval, 1846-1853; 7. The Northern Realignment, 1854-1860; Afterword; Appendix A. A Theory of Political Realignment; Appendix B. Graphing U.S. Politics, 1840-1860
Appendix C. State and Congressional Elections Used in Figures 6.1, 7.1, and B.1-10 Appendix D. Number of Cases for Regions in Average Vote in Elections Used for Figures 6.1, 7.1, and B.1-10; Notes; Sources; Index;

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-385) and index.

Summary:

While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War.In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936716428702486

ISBN:

9798890877499
9780807861684
0807861685

OCLC Number:

56356660