Author:
Link, William A.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Descriptionxvii, 387 p. : illus., maps ; 25 cm.
Note:A slave society : Virginia in the 1850s -- Boastful and belligerent champions of southern institutions : slavery and politics, 1851-1854 -- A uniform spirit of lawlessness : the problem of runaways -- A spirit of license in the guise of liberty : the survival of opposition, 1854-1856 -- The darkest and most perilous hours of our national existence : the deepening sectional crisis, 1856-1859 -- A black demon of fanaticism : Harpers Ferry and the election of 1860 -- To light the torch of servile insurrection : the secession crisis.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-371) and index.
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