Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War
Essays on the Background of the Civil War
1st Edition
Published on 17. September 1981
333 pages
978-0-19-802029-5 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of essays by a master historian. Amongst the subjects that Stampp tackles are the inevitability of the Civil War and the truth about why the confederacy actually died. The other essays are a mix of historiography and analysis of issues including Lincolns role in reinforcing Fort Sumter, the impact of psychology in trading slaves, and the role of racism in the Republican Party.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- Unum aut Plures?
- I. The Concept of a Perpetual Union
- Two Controversies over Slavery
- II. Rebels and Sambos: The Search for the Negro's Personality in Slavery
- III. Time on the Cross: A Humanistic Perspective
- Republicans and the Sectional Crisis
- IV. Race, Slavery, and the Republican Party of the 1850s
- V. The Republican National Convention of 1860
- VI. Lincoln and the Secession Crisis
- Civil War Causes and Consequences
- VII. The Irrepressible Conflict
- VIII. The Southern Road to Appomattox
- Notes
- Index
