| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 292 pages ; 22 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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| Series |
American century series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Freedom, slavery, and the legacy of the American Revolution -- "Our laborers are our property": the southern slave economy -- "Each person works for himself": the ideal and reality of free labor -- "A complete revolution in social life": cultural change in the Antebellum north -- "The anointed lords of creation": culture and society in the Antebellum south -- "Called by the same name": the many meanings of liberty -- To "fight against the serpent": antislavery and its early progress -- "A fireball in the night": the struggle escalates -- "Keep it within limits": western lands and free soil -- "Anti Nebraska feeling is too deep": origins and triumph of Republicanism -- "The inexorable logic of events": secession, war, and emancipation. |
| Summary |
Half Slave and Half Free is a powerful treatment of the basic issues and social transformations that precipitated the Civil War. In a succinct, persuasive narrative, Bruce Levine succeeds in showing how a popular basis for the Civil War developed out of the far-reaching and divisive changes in American life after the incomplete Revolution of 1776--changes that stemmed from the development of two very distinct social systems, one based on slavery, the other on free labor, which eventually made sectional differences within the framework of the Union irreconcilable. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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United States -- History -- 1783-1865.
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Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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War -- Causes.
(OCoLC)fst01170331
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Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1783-1899
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| Added Author |
Foner, Eric, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0374523096 (pbk.) |
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9780374523091 (pbk.) |
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0809053527 |
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9780809053520 |
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