Roots of Secession
Subtitle: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Civil War America)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780807856611
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Black studies; Slavery & emancipation; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - 19th Century; History - U.S.; Social Science; United States - State & Local - South; Sociology; Virginia; United States - Antebellum Era; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); History-United States - Antebellum Era; Social Science / African-American Studies; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History - General History; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - State & Local - General; 19th century; African Americans; Government, Resistance to; History; Political activity; Politics and government; Slaves
First sentence: LATE ANTEBELLUM Virginia, like the rest of the South, had long existed as a "slave society" rather than a "society with slaves."