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100 1 $aBowman, Shearer Davis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90639684
245 10 $aAt the precipice :$bAmericans north and south during the secession crisis /$cShearer Davis Bowman.
246 30 $aAmericans north and south during the secession crisis
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $a379 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aThe Littlefield history of the Civil War era
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction and Overview -- $g2.$tSlaveholders and Slaves, States Rights and Revolution -- $g3.$tHonor and Degradation -- $tSection, Hare, and Gender -- $g4.$tThe Second Party System and Its Legaey -- $tThe Careers of John Bell, John C. Breckinridge, Howell Cobb, Stephen A. Douglas, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren -- $g5.$tJefferson Davis, Horac L. Kent, and the Old South -- $g6.$tAbraham Lincoln, Henry Waller, and the Free-Labor North -- $g7.$tKeziali Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard and Sojourner Truth -- $tFaith, Race, and Gender -- $g8.$tPresident Buchanan, the Crittenden Compromise, President Lincoln, and Fort Sumter.
520 1 $a""There have been many books about the secession crisisb︣ut nearly all of them have focused on the political brinksmanship and military chest-thumping that led to disunion and war. Bowman widens the lens and provides a thoroughly original, comprehensive, and gripping story of how a more complex tapestry of Americans North and South, male and female, black and white, famous and unknown, dealt with this unprecedented challenge to their national and local identities. The result adds much to the scholarship of the Great Secession wintera︣nd sheds welcome new light on long-neglected themes."-Harold Holzer, author of Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861" ""Bowman examines the dissolution of the Unions︣urely the most important crisis in American historyf︣rom a variety of angles and perspectives. This is a very original, even arresting account that makes us rethink how we should consider secession and the breakup of the American republic. It is required reading for students of the Civil War crisis."-William A. Link, author of Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia" "Why did eleven slave states secede From the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion?" "At the Precipice seeks to answer these and related questions by Focusing on the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the late antebellum years, from John Brown's aborted raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859 to President Lincoln's call for troops to wage the "war of the rebellion in 1861. Rather than give a narrative account of the crisis, Shearer Davis Bowman takes readers into the minds of the leading actors, examining the lives and thoughts of such key figures as Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buran. Bowman also provides an especially vivid glimpse into what less famous men and women in both section thought about themselves and the political, social, and cultural worlds in which they lived, and how their thoughts informed their actions during the secession crisis. Bowman reveals, for instance, that many southerners remained deeply "American" in their own minds. Mississippian Jefferson Davis and Virginian John Tyler saw disunion as a means of preserving what they perceived to be genuinely American institutions and values. Intriguingly, secessionists and Unionists alike glorified the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, yet they interpreted those sacred documents in markedly different ways and held very different notions of what constituted "American" values."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1849-1861.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140437
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCauses.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140219
650 0 $aSecession$zUnited States$xHistory.
830 0 $aLittlefield history of the Civil War era.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008153449
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