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Half slave and half free : the roots of Civil War / Bruce Levine ; consulting editor, Eric Foner.

By: Levine, Bruce C, 1949-.
Contributor(s): Foner, Eric.
Material type: TextTextSeries: American century series. Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, Noonday Press, 1992Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-282) and index.Description: x, 292 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0374523096 (pbk.) :; 0809053527.Subject(s): Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes | United States -- History -- 1783-1865DDC classification: 973.7/11
Contents:
Freedom, slavery, and the legacy of the American Revolution -- "Our laborers are our property": the southern slave economy -- "Each person works for himself": the ideal and reality of free labor -- "A complete revolution in social life": cultural change in the Antebellum north -- "The anointed lords of creation": culture and society in the Antebellum south -- "Called by the same name": the many meanings of liberty -- To "fight against the serpent": antislavery and its early progress -- "A fireball in the night": the struggle escalates -- "Keep it within limits": western lands and free soil -- "Anti Nebraska feeling is too deep": origins and triumph of Republicanism -- "The inexorable logic of events": secession, war, and emancipation.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-282) and index.

Freedom, slavery, and the legacy of the American Revolution -- "Our laborers are our property": the southern slave economy -- "Each person works for himself": the ideal and reality of free labor -- "A complete revolution in social life": cultural change in the Antebellum north -- "The anointed lords of creation": culture and society in the Antebellum south -- "Called by the same name": the many meanings of liberty -- To "fight against the serpent": antislavery and its early progress -- "A fireball in the night": the struggle escalates -- "Keep it within limits": western lands and free soil -- "Anti Nebraska feeling is too deep": origins and triumph of Republicanism -- "The inexorable logic of events": secession, war, and emancipation.

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