Roots of Secession

Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

By:

William A Link

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Civil War America

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The role of slaves and free blacks in the politics of secession An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves and some 50,000 free blacks, Virginia witnessed a uniquely volatile convergence of slave resistance and electoral politics in the 1850s. While masters struggled with slaves, disunionists sought to join a regionwide effort to secede and moderates sought to protect slavery but remain in the Union. Arguing for a definition of political action that extends beyond the electoral sphere, William A. Link shows that the coming of the Civil War was directly connected to Virginia's system of slavery, as the tension between defiant slaves and anxious slaveholders energized Virginia politics and spurred on the impending sectional crisis.

Author Biography:

WILLIAM A. LINK is Richard J. Mllbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His previous books include A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920, and The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930.

Release date Australia

August 31st, 2005

Author

William A Link

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

New edition

Pages

416

Series

Civil War America

Dimensions

156x236x24

ISBN-13

9780807856611

Product ID

3630330

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