02234     2200241   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056041000800097082001200105084001800117100002500135245007800160260004700238300002400285500002400309520151000333650004701843650001401890650003801904990002501942990002501967INLIS00000000000766220221114024405  a0010-0520007662221114                |          | eng    aind  a973.711  a973.711 FRE r0 aFreehling, William W14aRoad to Disunion :bSecessionist at Bay 1776-1854 /cWilliam W. Freehling  aNew York :bOxford University Press,c1990  aX, 640 p. ;c24 cm.  aIndeks : p. 627-640  aIn he first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here: the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Controversy, the Gag Rule ("the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy"), the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Freehling vividly recounts each crisis, illuminating complex issues and sketching colorful portraits of major figures. Along the way, he reveals the surprising extent to which slavery influenced national politics before 1850, and he provides important reinterpretations of AMerican republicanism, Jeffersonian state's right, Jacksonian democracy, and causes of the American Civil War. But for all Freehling's brilliant insight into American antebellum politics, Secessionist at Bay is at bottom the saga of the rich social tapestry of the pre-war South. He takes us to old Charleston, Natchez, and Nashville to the big house of a typical plantation, and we feel anew tensions between the slaveowner and his family, the poor whites and the planters, the established South and the newer South, and especially between the slave and his master' "cuffee" and "Massa." Freehling brings the Old South back to life in all its color, cruelty, and diversity. It is a memorable portrait, certain to be a key analysis of this crucial era in American history. 4aUnited States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865 4aSecession 4aPolitics and government 1775-1865  a16599/MKRI-P/VI-2010  a16599/MKRI-P/VI-2010