Calculating the value of the Union
Subtitle: slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War
By: James L. Huston.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery, property rights, and the American Revolution; title: The origins of slaveholder aggressiveness; title: Free labor and the competition of slaves; title: The antislavery debate over property rights; title: The constitutionality of slavery prohibition in the territories; title: The politics of Southern upheaval, 1846-1853; title: The Northern realignment, 1854-1860.