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Author | : Anthony Gene Carey |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820340928 |
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At the heart of Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861 were two ideological cornerstones--the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery--Anthony Gene Carey argues in this comprehensive, analytical narrative of the three decades leading up to the Civil War. In Georgia, broad consensus on political essentials restricted the range of state party differences and the scope of party debate, but Whigs and Democrats battled intensely over how best to protect Southern rights and institutions within the Union. The power and security that national party alliances promised attracted Georgians, but the compromises and accommodations that maintaining such alliances required also repelled them. By 1861, Carey finds, white men who were out of time, fearful of further compromise, and compelled to choose acted to preserve liberty and slavery by taking Georgia out of the Union. Secession, the ultimate expression of white unity, flowed logically from the values, attitudes, and antagonisms developed during three decades of political strife.
Author | : Anthony Gene Carey |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817317414 |
Download Sold Down the River Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
!--StartFragment-- Examines a small part of slavery’s North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich and powerful slave societies, the United States of America and then the Confederate States of America. The expansion and concentration of slavery into what became the Confederacy in 1861 was arguably the most momentous development after nationhood itself in the early history of the American republic. This book examines a relatively small part of slavery’s North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia. Although geographically at the heart of Dixie, the valley was among the youngest parts of the Old South; only thirty-seven years separate the founding of Columbus, Georgia, and the collapse of the Confederacy. In those years, the area was overrun by a slave society characterized by astonishing demographic, territorial, and economic expansion. Valley counties of Georgia and Alabama became places where everything had its price, and where property rights in enslaved persons formed the basis of economic activity. Sold Down the River examines a microcosm of slavery as it was experienced in an archetypical southern locale through its effect on individual people, as much as can be determined from primary sources. Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society. !--EndFragment--
Author | : Anthony Gene Carey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1424 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Georgia |
ISBN | : |
Download Parties and Politics in Antebellum Georgia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Wallace Hettle |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820322827 |
Download The Peculiar Democracy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter--a deceptively high point of white racial solidarity. Avoiding such a "Civil War synthesis," The Peculiar Democracy illuminates the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. Hettle shows that war was the greatest test of populist Democratic Party rhetoric that emphasized the shared interests of white men, slaveholder and nonslaveholder alike. The Peculiar Democracy analyzes antebellum politics in terms of the connections between slavery, manhood, and the legacies of Jefferson and Jackson. It then looks at the secession crisis through the anxieties felt by Democratic politicians who claimed concern for the interests of both slaveholders and nonslaveholders. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals whose stories highlight the limitations of democratic political culture in a society dominated by the "peculiar institution." Through narratives informed by recent scholarship on gender, honor, class, and the law, Hettle profiles South Carolina's Francis W. Pickens, Georgia's Joseph Brown, Alabama's Jeremiah Clemens, Virginia's John Rutherfoord, and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis. The Civil War stories presented in The Peculiar Democracy illuminate the political and sometimes personal tragedy of men torn between a political culture based on egalitarian rhetoric and the wartime imperatives to defend slavery.
Author | : Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1855 |
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ISBN | : |
Download Slave Life in Georgia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Herbert Roper |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780865541122 |
Download U.B. Philips, a Southern Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Van Gosse |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 759 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469660113 |
Download The First Reconstruction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Abraham Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.
Author | : Michele Gillespie |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820326704 |
Download Free Labor in an Unfree World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Individual case studies explore the artisans' worlds on a more personal level, introducing us to the lives and work of such individuals as William Price Talmage, a journeyman; Reuben King, an artisan who became a planter; and Jett Thomas, one of the first master builders to leave his mark on Georgia's architecture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : John Ashworth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521474876 |
Download Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Civil War should be seen as America's 'bourgeois revolution'. So argues Dr John Ashworth in this novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development in the forty years before the Civil War. This book, the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics, locates the political struggles of the antebellum period in the international context of the dismantling of unfree labor systems. With its sequel, the volume will demonstrate that the conflict resulted from differences between capitalist and slave modes of production. With a careful synthesis of existing scholarship on the economics of slavery, the origins of abolitionism, the proslavery argument and the second party system, Ashworth maintains that the origins of the American Civil War are best understood in terms derived from Marxism.
Author | : James L. Huston |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807828045 |
Download Calculating the Value of the Union Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.