Roots of Secession

Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

William A Link author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press

Published:31st Aug '05

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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.

ISBN: 9780807856611

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 555g

416 pages

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