Title: Half slave and half free
First published: 1991
Description: Half Slave and Half Free is a powerful treatment of the basic issues and social transformations that precipitated the Civil War. In a succinct, persuasive narrative, Bruce Levine succeeds in showing how a popular basis for the Civil War developed out of the far-reaching and divisive changes in American life after the incomplete Revolution of 1776--changes that stemmed from the development of two very distinct social systems, one based on slavery, the other on free labor, which eventually made sectional differences within the framework of the Union irreconcilable.
Subjects: Causes, History, Slavery, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Working class, Working class, history, Working class, united states, Slavery, united states, history, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, causes
Places: United States
Time periods: 1783-1865, 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865