At the precipice
Subtitle: Americans north and south during the secession crisis
By: Shearer Davis Bowman
Series: Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780807833926
Other titles: Americans north and south during the secession crisis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: Slaveholders and slaves, state's rights and revolution; title: Honor and degradation : section, race, and gender; title: The second party system and its legacy : the careers of John Bell, John C. Breckinridge, Howell Cobb, Stephen A. Douglas, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren; title: Jefferson Davis, Horace L. Kent, and the old south; title: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Waller, and the free-labor north; title: Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard and Sojourner Truth : faith, race, and gender; title: President Buchanan, the Crittenden Compromise, President Lincoln, and Fort Sumter.