The Road to Disunion, Volume I

Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854

By:

William W Freehling

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Paperback / softback

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This first volume of William Freehling's long-awaited, monumental study of the south's road to disunion offers a sweeping social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here from the Missouri Compromise to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, as are the major figures of the era, including Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Drawing heavily on contemporary sources, such as diaries and letters, Freehling evokes all the colour and cruelty of the vanished Old South and reveals the significant divisions of opinion that prevailed even in the slave states.

Author Biography:

William Freehling is Singletary Professor of the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. His first book, Prelude to Civil War, won both an Allan Nevins and a Bancroft Prize and is recognized as one of the most significant studies of the Civil War era published in the past three decades.

Release date Australia

October 15th, 1992

Author

William W Freehling

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

halftones, maps

Pages

654

Dimensions

154x235x43

ISBN-13

9780195072594

Product ID

3487633

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