The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000 - History - 362 pages
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for
 

Contents

The Genesis of the Political Ideology of Slavery
9
Nullification
33
The Discourse of Southern Nationalism
63
South Carolina and the First Secession Crisis
95
The Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade
125
Judicial Nullification
153
The Coming of Secession
187
Secession
221
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
255
NOTES
259
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES
323
INDEX
343
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Manisha Sinha is associate professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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