Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation and the American Civil WarNo series of events had a more dramatic impact on the course of American history than the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves. This book examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860 and the equally determined effort of Northerners to preserve it. A central thesis of the book is that slavery not only "caused" the Civil War by producing tensions that could not be resolved by compromise; the slave system also played a crucial role in the outcome of the war by crippling the Southern war effort at the same time that emancipation became a unifying cause for the North. The author looks at a century of sectional conflict over slavery and reveals a great irony of the American Civil War. The South suffered a bitter defeat in a war to protect the institution of slavery, even though it is likely that the Constitution of the United States offered the best protection for a slave system. And, despite the abolition of slavery in the United States, equality for Black Americans remained a distant dream. |
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Contents
Historical Puzzles | 1 |
Writing and Rewriting Civil War History | 2 |
Economics and Politics in the Civil War Era | 6 |
Slavery War and Emancipation | 12 |
Slavery and Freedom | 18 |
Slavery and Freedom | 19 |
Slavery Moves West | 22 |
Slaves and the Constitution | 27 |
Republican Triumph and Southern Secession | 155 |
A Final View | 166 |
Appendix Tables | 168 |
Slavery and the War | 172 |
Military Strategy in the North and the South | 175 |
From Shiloh to Chattanooga | 181 |
Men Slaves and Money | 189 |
The Question of Emancipation | 204 |
The Missouri Crisis of 1819 | 33 |
The Economics of Slavery | 41 |
Did Slavery Pay? The Slave as an Economic Asset | 42 |
Economic Growth in the Antebellum South | 47 |
The South and Western Land | 53 |
Slave and Free Farms | 60 |
Who Will Pay? The Economics of Emancipation | 68 |
Samples of Farms | 72 |
The Politics of Slavery | 82 |
The Genesis of the SecondParty System | 84 |
The Question of Slavery Revisited | 92 |
The Wilmot Proviso | 97 |
Presidents and Slavery | 100 |
The Armistice of 1850 | 109 |
Appendix Table | 120 |
The Politics of Compromise | 121 |
Overturning the Missouri Compromise | 123 |
Immigrants Nativism and KnowNothings | 127 |
Free Labor Free Soil and the Slave Power | 138 |
Dred Scott and Kansas | 146 |
Total War and Unconditional Surrender | 209 |
Appendix Table | 214 |
The Impact of Emancipation | 216 |
Blacks Reaction to Freedom | 219 |
Whites Reaction to Emancipation | 225 |
Breaking Up the Plantation | 234 |
Cotton Corn and Credit | 240 |
The Failure of Radical Reconstruction | 246 |
Appendix Table | 252 |
After the War | 253 |
Industry and Agriculture in the North | 255 |
Saving and Investment | 264 |
Tariffs Banks and the West | 268 |
The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism | 279 |
The Second Reconstruction | 284 |
Appendix Tables | 286 |
Bibliography | 289 |
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