Slavery as a cause of the Civil War
Series: Problems in American civilization
Publisher: Heath
Published: 1949
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Slavery -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
Description: 'The documents in the first group bring to mind several important questions about the way the slavery question functioned in the minds of public leaders between 1857 and 1861. The second group provides us with an opportunity to sharpen our thinking about the slavery question by analyzing the efforts of modern historians to appraise the slavery question as a casual factor in the coming of the Civil War."-- Introduction.
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: title: Antecedents of the American Civil War, 1850-1860 / James F. Rhodes; title: The central theme of Southern history / Ulrich B. Phillips; title: The slave power conspiracy : 1830-1860 / Russel B. Nye; title: The approach of the irrepressible conflict / Charles and Mary Beard; title: Business and slavery / Philip S. Foner; title: South Carolina and the idea of Southern nationalism / Rollin G. Osterweis; title: A blundering generation / J.G. Randall; title: Slavery and the Civil War / Bernard DeVoto; title: Suggestions for additional reading