Disunion!
the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
by Elizabeth R. Varon
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In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans' political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of the founders' singular effort to establish a lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, the image of a cataclysm that would reduce them to misery and fratricidal war. For many others, however, threats, accusations, and intimations of disunion were instruments they could wield to achieve their partisan and sectional goals
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Politics and government, Rhetoric, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Sources, Slavery, Political aspects of Slavery, United States, Sectionalism (United States), Nonfiction, Political aspects, Political aspects of Rhetoric, Antislavery movements, Causes, History, United states, politics and government, 1783-1865, Sectionalism (united states), Slavery, united states, history, Antislavery movements, united states, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, causesPlaces
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Disunion!: the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
2008, University of North Carolina Press
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